devis'd

_Shakespear_ had not only found out a new Character in his _Caliban_, but had also devis'd and adapted a new manner of Language for that

Some Account of the Life of Mr. William Shakespear (1709) Nicholas Rowe

'T was so devis'd by Brunhild, King Gunther's moody wife.

Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906

When simple youth devis'd to length [en] his delight,

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

Shakespear had not only found out a new Character in his Caliban, but had also devis'd and adapted a new manner of Language for that Character.

Some Account of the Life of Mr William Shakespear Rowe, Nicholas 1709

-- Fond Ceremony that -- A necessary trick, devis'd by wary Age, to traffick 'twixt a

The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664

And on this occasion I remember that, to give some of my Friends an Ocular proof of the difference betwixt the fixt and Volatile salt (of the same Concrete) Wood, I devis'd the following Experiment.

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

Experiment which I devis'd to make out this Difference of the oyles of the same Vegetable, _ad Oculum_, (as they speak) was this that followes.

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

You recall to my mind (sayes _Carneades_) a certain Experiment I once devis'd, innocently to deceive some persons, and let them and others see how little is to be built upon the affirmation of those that are either unskillfull or unwary, when they tell us they have seen

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

Have not devis'd this slander; I'll be hang'd else.

Othello William Shakespeare 1590

As I am now unhappy; which is more Than hiftory can pattern, tho 'devis'd.

Works 1795