Meaning of devisal | Babel Free

Definitions

An act of devising.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“19th century, Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake What heart could have thought you?— Past our devisal (O filigree petal!)”

“Each word may be not unfitly compared to an invention; it has its own place, mode, and circumstances of devisal, its preparation in the previous habits of speech […]”

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