devisal

plural devisals

1. countableuncountableAn act of devising.

   19th century, Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake What heart could have thought you?— Past our devisal (O filigree petal!)

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   Each word may be not unfitly compared to an invention; it has its own place, mode, and circumstances of devisal, its preparation in the previous habits of speech […]

   1875, William Dwight Whitney, The Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science