Crossword-Solution: DEVISED
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Devised | imp. & p. p. | of Devise |
We have 7 clues for the answer “DEVISED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Thought (up) | 5 answers |
| Dreamed (up) | 6 answers |
| Formulated | 7 answers |
| Recherch | 11 answers |
| Invented | 16 answers |
| Originated | 39 answers |
| Contrived | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEVISED (5)
The other was a most artful deceiver, and could be understood only by such as were skilful enough to detect his cunningly-devised frauds.
Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary.
All of the indices driving this kind of usage were originally devised for speed, MYLONAS observed; in other words, all that kind of information-- all forms of all words, where they exist, the dictionary form they belong to--were collected into databases, which will expedite searching.
The law had devised an ingenious system whereby the fine was divided equally between the judge, the informer, and the state treasury.
The aid took us to his own office first, where he measured and weighed and photographed us simultaneously with a machine ingeniously devised for that purpose, five copies being instantly reproduced in five different offices of the government, two of which are located in other cities miles distant.
Quotes with DEVISED (3)
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
And so these refined parents rejected their five-year-old girl to all kinds of torture. They beat her, kicked her, flogged her, for no reason that they themselves knew of. The child’s whole body was covered in bruises. Eventually they devised a new refinement. Under the pretext that the child dirtied her bed (as though a five-year-old deep in her angelic sleep could be punished for that), they forced her to eat excrement, smearing it all over her face. And it was the mother t…
Verily it is a foolish thought that they both have devised, for the ground is given unto the wood, and the sea also had its place to bear its floods.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1971–2023).