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Webster 1913 Edition

Devisal

De-vis′al

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Noun.

A devising.

Whitney.

Definition 2024

devisal

devisal

English

Noun

devisal ‎(countable and uncountable, plural devisals)

An act of devising.
- XIX c., Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake
  
  What heart could have thought you?—
  
  Past our devisal
  
  (O filigree petal!)
- William Dwight Whitney
  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 […]