6 Verbs to Use for the Word devise

If then your confidence esteem my cause To be so frivolous and weakly wrought, Why do you daily subtle plots devise, To stop me from the ears of common sense?

And swithe well he gan devise, Her semblant, and her gentrise, Her lovesome eyen, her rode so bright.

Whereupon," he adds, "who did not busy his braine to hammer his devise out of this forge?"

Look how a tigress, &c. So fell she on me in outrageous wise, As could disdain and jealousy devise.

"This, sir, is my late father's will," Mr. Effingham said mildly; "and, in that particular clause, you will find that he makes a special devise of this very 'Point,' leaving it to his heirs, in such terms as to put any intention to give it to the public quite out of the question.

But whereas Ronsard had meant by invention high, grand, and beautiful conceptions, Gascoigne means "some good and fine devise, shewing the quicke capacitie of a writer."

6 Verbs to Use for the Word  devise