Both Uses
devise
in
The Pardoner's Tale
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- As shameful death as hearte can devise Come to these judges and their advoca's.†
*devise = come up with (invent or create)
- But, shortly mine intent I will devise, I preach of nothing but of covetise.†
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) In law, devise can also reference a gift given in a will (or the act of bequeathing such a gift).