devisal
nounEtymology From devise + -al.
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An act of devising.
- 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 […]1875, William Dwight Whitney, The Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science: