Both Uses
devise
in
Orphan Train, by Christina Baker Kline
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- This outburst does little but boost the boy's status in the eyes of his friends, who take to devising ingenious ways to irritate Mr. Curran without giving themselves away.†
p. 35.6devising = coming up with (inventing or creating)
- Thank you, sir, but Mr. Curran and I will devise a sufficient punishment.†
p. 43.9 *devise = come up with (invent or create)
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).