Meaning of devisedst | Babel Free

Definitions

second-person singular simple past indicative of devise

archaic, form-of, indicative, past, second-person, singular

Examples

“I ſay guns were found out for the quick diſpatch of mortality, and when thou ſaweſt men grow wiſe, and beget ſo fair a child as peace, of ſo foul and deformed a mother as war, leſt there ſhould be no murder, thou deviſedſt poiſon.”

“The means thou deviſedſt to effect this were worthy thyſelf.”

“But glory to God in the highest, thanks, eternal thanks to thy holy name, that thou in thy infinite goodness and wisdom devisedst a scheme and contrivedst a plan infinitely glorious and surpassing the imagination, the comprehension, and the conception of the highest archangel; […]”

“We bless Thee, gracious Father, that thou didst, in compassion, view our ruined state, and devisedst the plan of our salvation.”

“At length thou grewest into such perfect hatred against me, that thou devisedst, by what means thou couldest, to work my confusion.”

“For thou first devisedst ruin against Ægisthus, and wert present beside me in my dangers, and now again thou givest me vengeance on my enemies, and art not out of the way; but I shall give over praising thee, since even in this there is some weight to be praised immoderately.”

“If clear from plotting Balder’s death, to swim; / But deep, if thou devisedst it, to drown.”

“Not for earth’s sake didst Thou devise anything that was to be erected on the earth, but Thou devisedst all, that by communication of Thy heavenly power Thou mightest gather up the whole creation into the unity of the House of God.”

““What aileth thee, O my daughter, to search into this and enquire? / Was it not thou that devisedst the thing that hath now been done, / That with vengeance for those ill-doers Odysseus should come to his own?[…]””

““The penitent in spirit,” said the old man, “it was him—I represented; thou thyself once devisedst this expression— / —The poet and magician who at last turneth his spirit against himself, the transformed one who freezeth to death by his bad science and conscience. And just acknowledge it: it was long, O Zarathustra, before thou discoveredst my trick and lie! Thou believedst in my distress when thou heldest my head with both thy hands,— / —I heard thee lament ‘we have loved him too little, loved him too little!’ Because I so far deceived thee, my wickedness rejoiced in me.””

“GOD, who devisedst man who then devised / The axe, the arrow, and the armored tank, / Until his hand, which once was moderate-sized, / Increased in reach beyond his moral rank— / God, who hast smiled on razor-blades and rayon / Succeeding Neolithic flints and skins, / Give man a modern basis now to pray on— / Forgive him for his Neolithic sins.”

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