All 3 Uses
devise
in
The Boy on the Wooden Box
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- Since my new friends and I never had any money, we devised what we thought was an extraordinarily clever way to ride for free.†
p. 36.5 *devised = came up with (invented or created)
- My mother and Mrs. Bircz had devised a strategy they hoped would protect us.†
p. 101.7
- Early in 1946, David and Pesza devised a plan to go back to Czechoslovakia to see if they could settle there.†
p. 175.6
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).