DEVISE, DEVISING
NOUNS
► HAMMERING a devising, contriving, or constructing → 1589 obs.
► ORDINANCE the arrangement of plans; devising, contriving, planning; a device, contrivance, plan → a1330 obs.
VERBS
► ADVISE to devise, to purpose → c1340 obs.
► AND to breathe; to whisper; to devise; to imagine → 19C Sc. obs.
► BETHINK to devise, to contrive, to plan, to arrange → a1225 obs.
► BLOCK to plan, to devise → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► CAST 1. to put into shape, dispose, arrange, or order; to lay out in order, to plan, to devise → a1300 obs.
2. to machinate, to contrive, to devise, to scheme → c1325 obs.
► DECOCT to prepare, to devise, to concoct → 1602 obs.
► EIN to breathe, to whisper, to devise, to imagine → 1887 Sc. obs.
► FAKE ► FAKE UP to concoct or devise, esp. for a deceptive purpose → 1889 sl.
► IMAGE to devise, to plan → c1440 obs.
► ORDAIN to plan, to devise, to contrive → 1340 obs.
► SKIFT to arrange, devise, manage, or order something → a1300 obs.
► SUBTLE to devise cleverly → 1377 obs.
► TIGHT to prepare, to get ready; to devise, to contrive → a1300 obs.
► WHOMP UP to make; to devise; to build → 1950 sl.
► WORK UP to devise → M19 Amer. sl.
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