Crossword-Solution: DEVISES
We have 10 clues for the answer “DEVISES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Formulates or contrives | 1 answer |
| Formulates, as a plan | 1 answer |
| Comes up with | 2 answers |
| Contrives | 3 answers |
| Thinks up | 3 answers |
| Crafts | 6 answers |
| Dreams up | 6 answers |
| Hatches | 8 answers |
| Invents | 8 answers |
| Plots | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEVISES (5)
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and devises presumptuous deeds, and the son of Cronos lays great trouble upon the people, famine and plague together, so that the men perish away, and their women do not bear children, and their houses become few, through the contriving of Olympian Zeus.
CHAPTER XIX HOW THE SHERIFF HELD ANOTHER SHOOTING MATCH “To tell the truth, I’m well informed Yon match it is a wile; The Sheriff, I know, devises this Us archers to beguile.” Now the Sheriff was so greatly troubled in heart over the growing power of Robin Hood, that he did a very foolish thing.
Aaron was charged with those, that proceeded from the earth and the water, the elements that are composed of more or less solid parts, from which are fashioned all the corporeal, distinctive entities, while the three entrusted to Moses were those that proceeded from the air and the fire, the elements that are most prolific of life.[170] The Lord is a man of war, and as a king of flesh and blood devises various stratagems against his enemy, so God attacked the Egyptians in various ways.
Then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises; and what they think in their hearts they may effect, they will break their hearts but they will effect.
After thirty-five years of actual possession, after twenty-five years of possession solemnly guaranteed by statute, after innumerable leases and releases, mortgages and devises, it was too late to search for flaws in titles.
Quotes with DEVISES (3)
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable.
Helen devises plans to become a monster herself.
An architect draws the plans for a new building — but it still has to be built. A composer writes a new piece of music — but it still has to be played. A chef devises a new recipe — but the ingredients still have to be cooked. In the same way, God has given us a blueprint for living — but we must know what it is and then put it into action.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1972–2024).