devised
- 1Simple past and past participle of devise.
The committee devised a fresh strategy for the upcoming campaign.
The escape route had been devised weeks before the prisoners attempted it.
Note
A plan and an estate can both be devised, and the passive shows the difference most clearly. Because both main meanings of devise take an object, the form often follows be: a scheme devised by its authors, a house devised to an heir. The preposition does the sorting. By names whoever thought it up, and to names whoever inherits. Elsewhere it serves, unchanged, as the simple past and after have.
The farmhouse was devised to her younger brother.
It was a scheme devised by two clerks in their spare hours.
devised is a form of devise
devise, verb: To work out a plan or design for something through careful thought. Full entry
- Spelling
- devise → devised: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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