devised

verbconceive, dream up

Antonyms for devised

trumped up

adjective. made up

Word Origin & History

early 13c., "to form, fashion;" c.1300, "to plan, contrive," from Old French deviser "dispose in portions, arrange, plan, contrive" (in modern French, "to chat, gossip"), from Vulgar Latin *divisare, frequentative of Latin dividere "to divide" (see divide). Modern sense is from "to arrange a division" (especially via a will), a meaning present in the Old French word. Related: Devised; devising.

Example Sentences fordevised

Evidently a new plan must be devised if every body is to be satisfied.

She knew of situations like that, the cul-de-sac of chastity, worse than any devised by a Javert.

Lieut. Rodgers was convinced that this method was too risky and that some other must be devised.

Let us hope that by this time something better has been devised for them all.

Only the goddess of the chase could have devised so terrible a revenge.

A block system is devised and partly made, but is not yet erected.

But by next year a means will have been devised of destroying these monsters.

Thus did Rose rattle on, exulting over the scheme she had devised.

By slow degrees he devised a complete system of organisation.

No machine yet devised could perform this tedious and unprofitable task.

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