All 6 Uses of
devise
in
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- The boys looked at it briefly, quickly lost interest in it and started up a four-man baseball game of their own devising.†
Chpt 1 *devising = coming up with (inventing or creating)
- Since it was essential that a masquerade costume be decollete, she had devised a backless costume, the front cut to display her over-full bust and with one long sleeve to cover that right arm.†
Chpt 4devised = came up with (invented or created)
- After trying to devise some simple games, Francie and Neeley lost interest, clumsily tied the contents of the box to a string, trailed the string out of the window and finally secured the string by shutting the window on it.†
Chpt 14devise = come up with (invent or create)
- To Francie, watching, her face close to the iron mesh, this seemed the most fascinating occupation ever devised.†
Chpt 15devised = came up with (invented or created)
- She devised a game in which each number was a family member and the "answer" made a family grouping with a story to it.†
Chpt 22
- A few hypocrites devised such evasive games as "playing house" or "doctor.†
Chpt 33
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).