All 3 Uses of

devise
in
The Adventures of Augie March

The daughters-in-law did not want her, and she, the widow of a powerful Odessa businessman—a divinity over us, bald, whiskery, with a fat nose, greatly armored in a cutaway, a double-breasted vest, powerfully buttoned (his blue photo, enlarged and retouched by Mr. Lulov, hung in the parlor, doubled back between the portico columns of the full-length mirror, the dome of the stove beginning where his trunk ended)—she preferred to live with us, because for so many years she was used to direct a house, to command, to govern, to manage, scheme, devise, and intrigue in all her languages.†
Chpt 1

devise = come up with (invent or create)

I wanted simplicity and denied complexity, and in this I was guileful and suppressed many patents in my secret heart, and was as devising as anybody else.†
Chpt 19 *

devising = coming up with (inventing or creating)

I figure that for a while she'd have said to herself, "What I don't see with my own eyes won't hurt me"—this not quite deliberate blindness but the tight grasp of people who devise very deeply.†
Chpt 22

devise = come up with (invent or create)

Definitions:

(1) (devise as in: devise a plan)
to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan
(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).