All 5 Uses of
devise
in
In Cold Blood
- No. Because the plan was Dick's, and from first footfall to final silence, flawlessly devised.†
Chpt 1 *devised = came up with (invented or created)
- Probably the best solution-at least, the best Perry could devise-was to leave the stuff with "Jesus."†
Chpt 2devise = come up with (invent or create)
- Imagine going all out to impress a man you were going to kill, a man who wouldn't be alive ten minutes from now-not if the plan he and Dick had devised went smoothly.†
Chpt 3devised = came up with (invented or created)
- Another method of escape, suicide, replaced them in his musings; and despite the jailer's precautions (no mirror, no belt or tie or shoelaces), he had devised a way to do it.†
Chpt 4
- How was the good-hearted Mr. Ziegler to know that nothing ailed the machine-that this was a ruse devised to rob and kill would-be Samaritans?†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(devise as in: devise a plan) to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In law, devise can also reference a gift given in a will (or the act of bequeathing such a gift).