What is "deviser"

Usage examples of "deviser".

Imagine a semi-communistic settlement set close to the borders of Rhodesia, in which thousands of Kaffirs passed a life analogous to that passed by the Indians of the missions -- cared for and fed by the community, looked after in every smallest particular of their lives -- and what a flood of calumny would be let loose upon the unfortunate devisers of the scheme!

The devisement he and Alastair had cast upon it would be almost invisible, undetectable by all but the most proficient of devisers.

The devisers say they can implant a woman with your seed and the child will have only your traits, none of the mother's.

Around the devisers of new values revolveth the world:- invisibly it revolveth.

Away from the market-place and from fame taketh place all that is great: away from the market-Place and from fame have ever dwelt the devisers of new values.

Although the devisers of the Stanford-Binet test consider such questions of geometric conception to be very useful in determining the "intelligence" of children, they are said to be increasingly less useful in IQ tests of teenagers and adults.

Why, he did not know, nor whether the scheme came from Elaida or Galina, but it had succeeded well enough, if not exactly in the way its devisers had thought.

After 40 years as both a slave and a deviser of them I cannot now look at University statutes or syllabuses without a sick-feeling.