Thesaurus / devise
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To meet this heavy expense the ministers had to devise all sorts of expedients to raise money.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONA more potent and public method of ridicule would be difficult to devise.
A LETTER FROM MR. CIBBER TO MR. POPECOLLEY CIBBERThus the facts help us devise the number phrase, and the phrase helps revive the facts.
ASSIMILATIVE MEMORYMARCUS DWIGHT LARROWE (AKA PROF. A. LOISETTE)But the prince will devise such things as are worthy of a prince, and he shall stand above the rulers.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSNo lawgiver had ever been able to devise a perfect and immortal form of government.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II.THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAYShe had come in search of Val's desk; which she found, and proceeded to devise means of opening it.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOODOn more than one state occasion she has had to devise something in a hurry because her wardrobe had run low.
WAYS OF WAR AND PEACEDELIA AUSTRIANMeantime, Joe had been puzzling his wits and wishing his wife was there to devise some plan for the wayfarer.
ST. NICHOLAS, VOL. 5, NO. 5, MARCH, 1878VARIOUSAs he hurried back to the Casa Grande he tried to devise some method of saving this unfortunate.
OVERLANDJOHN WILLIAM DE FORESTThree days, madame, three whole days in that dingy hole, trying in vain to devise some means of overcoming my wife's resistance.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEWORDS RELATED TO DEVISE
- arrange
- assemble
- block out
- bring about
- build
- cast
- complete
- compose
- conceive
- concoct
- constitute
- construct
- consummate
- contrive
- cook up
- create
- cultivate
- cut
- design
- develop
- devise
- dream up
- erect
- establish
- fabricate
- fashion
- finish
- fix
- forge
- found
- frame
- hammer out
- invent
- knock off
- make up
- manufacture
- model
- mold
- organize
- outline
- pattern
- perfect
- plan
- plot
- project
- put together
- scheme
- set
- set up
- shape
- structure
- throw together
- trace
- turn out
- work
- arranges
- assembles
- blocks out
- brings about
- builds
- casts
- completes
- composes
- conceives
- concocts
- constitutes
- constructs
- consummates
- contrives
- cooks up
- creates
- cultivates
- cuts
- designs
- develops
- devises
- dreams up
- erects
- establishes
- fabricates
- fashions
- finds
- finishes
- fixes
- forges
- frames
- hammers out
- invents
- knocks off
- makes up
- manufactures
- models
- molds
- organizes
- outlines
- patterns
- perfects
- plans
- plots
- projects
- puts together
- schemes
- sets
- sets up
- shapes
- structures
- throws together
- traces
- turns out
- works
- codifying
- coining
- composing
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- contriving
- cooking up
- couching
- defining
- detailing
- developing
- devising
- drafting
- drawing up
- dreaming up
- evolving
- expressing
- forging
- framing
- giving form to
- hatching
- inditing
- inventing
- making
- making up
- mapping
- originating
- particularizing
- phrasing
- preparing
- putting
- setting down
- systematizing
- vamping
- working
- working out
- bear
- brainstorm
- breed
- bring forth
- brood
- cause
- come up with
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- contrive
- cook up
- design
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- dream up
- engender
- formulate
- generate
- get up
- give birth
- incubate
- induce
- invent
- lay eggs
- make
- make up
- occasion
- originate
- parent
- plot
- prepare
- procreate
- produce
- project
- provoke
- scheme
- set
- sire
- spawn
- spitball
- think up
- throw together
- trump up
- whip up
- work up
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