All 3 Uses of
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Gifted Hands
- The exhausted primary neurosurgeon who had devised the plan for the operation was a ghetto kid from the streets of Detroit.†
p. 8.9 *devised = came up with (invented or created)
- Together we finally devised a way that we would actually get the tumor out.†
p. 173.2
- The babies' physicians in West Germany contacted us at Johns Hopkins, asking if the pediatric surgical team could devise a plan to separate the Binder twins and give them their chance to live normal, separated lives.†
p. 194.2devise = come up with (invent or create)
Definitions:
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(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) 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).