devisal

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English

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Etymology

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From devise +‎ -al.

Noun

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devisal (countable and uncountable, plural devisals)

  1. An act of devising.
    • 19th century, Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake
      What heart could have thought you?—
      Past our devisal
      (O filigree petal!)
    • 1875, William Dwight Whitney, The Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science:
      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 []

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