devises

What ever man contrives or devises is an artifice, a thing of art not of nature, and therefore artificial.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

Using electronic devises is allowed in many companies.

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Wireless devices harm aircraft: new study 2006

But once more the viduschaka devises a ruse which puts him in possession of the seal ring.

Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890

But the cultivation of the sand-rush, _arundo arenaria_, has done what the other "devises" failed to do; and the rushy towans have now provided an ideal golf-course, which prospers though the little town is somnolent.

The Cornwall Coast

C Rice CRice wrote: I am hoping that there must be some old medieval comfort adjusting "devises" that have been discontinued.

NPR Topics: News 2011

In making the choice to place the obscure protagonist at the center of a picture or drama, the Existentialist devises two sides of the same human condition: the Stranger and the Everyman or Everywoman.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

In making the choice to place the obscure protagonist at the center of a picture or drama, the Existentialist devises two sides of the same human condition: the Stranger and the Everyman or Everywoman.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

In making the choice to place the obscure protagonist at the center of a picture or drama, the Existentialist devises two sides of the same human condition: the Stranger and the Everyman or Everywoman.

G. Roger Denson: Can the Art of Victims and Collaborators Be Viewed Together? G. Roger Denson 2011

It's all in the timing, and a good punster waits for the exact moment to be left to his own devises.

Punditry 2009

• Changes at News International, where James Murdoch, discombobulated perhaps by the phone-hacking revelations, devises new ways to disconcert his underlings.

Hugh Muir's Diary 2011