Both Uses
devise
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Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
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- Believe me, watching you grow up from afar, devising this entire game, this series of tests-there were times that I didn't think I could go through it.†
Part 4devising = coming up with (inventing or creating)
- He tests off the charts of every intelligence scale devised.†
Part 4 *devised = came up with (invented or created)
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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(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).