释义 |
devised, ppl. a.|dɪˈvaɪzd| [f. devise v. + -ed1.] Planned, contrived, invented, feigned, etc.: see the verb.
1552Huloet, Deuised, cogitatus..Deuised in thought, or purposed precisely, meditatus. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 179 Allegories, and darke devised sentences. 1611Bible 2 Pet. i. 16 Wee have not followed cunningly deuised fables. 1634Canne Necess. Separ. (1849) 82 Worthily speaketh M. Perkins..when men set up a devised worship, they set up also a devised God. a1850J. C. Calhoun Wks. (1874) IV. 26 What is it but a cunningly devised scheme, to replenish the treasury of some of the states. |