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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Devised by one's self.
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Examples
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A vital part of the weekend paper for my wife and I is our self-devised celebrity birthday game.
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A vital part of the weekend paper for my wife and I is our self-devised celebrity birthday game.
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Doc next appeared in New York in 1969 at Columbia University handing out $50 bills to students as part of an self-devised economic experiment.
Tom Teicholz: "DOC" on PBS: The life and fictions of Harold Humes 2009
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That the film fails to achieve greatness is perhaps inherent to its having to follow up its own self-devised pop culture phenomenon, yet this fact alone makes its successes all the more astonishing.
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That the film fails to achieve greatness is perhaps inherent to its having to follow up its own self-devised pop culture phenomenon, yet this fact alone makes its successes all the more astonishing.
Archive 2007-07-01 2007
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Don't we all understand that high schoolers 'self-devised categories and peer comeuppances, including the petty cruelties Milner deplores, are just tools for the basic project of adolescence, which is a hunt for identity?
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Don't we all understand that high schoolers 'self-devised categories and peer comeuppances, including the petty cruelties Milner deplores, are just tools for the basic project of adolescence, which is a hunt for identity?
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She and I had omitted the new agora from our self-devised itinerary, but Aulus found it easily.
See Delphi and Die Davis, Lindsey 2005
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The ways and means which they prescribe and use for the attaining of it, are such as are no way directed by the divine wisdom of Christ in the Scripture; -- such as multiplied confessions to priests, irregular, ridiculous fastings, penances, self-macerations of the body, unlawful vows, self-devised rules of discipline and habits, with the like trinkets innumerable.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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And so will all self-devised ways of mortification end.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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