Both Uses
devise
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Notes of a Native Son
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- It seemed to me that God himself had devised, to mark my father's end, the most sustained and brutally dissonant of codas.†
Subsection 1 *devised = came up with (invented or created)
- And it seemed to me, too, that the violence which rose all about us as my father left the world had been devised as a corrective for the pride of his eldest son.†
Subsection 1
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).