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devisement

n. (context archaic English) diversion, entertainment

Usage examples of "devisement".

Whatever devisement has animated and given it a voice is preserving it.

Their devisements kicked everybody else's devisements around the block.

Use your Good Eye to see if you can spot devisement residue that might relate to the explosives, just in case they're not wholly chemical.

His right eye saw more: little telltale traces of devisement would waver or glow under the gaze of his Good Eye.

But he'd seen no unusual devisements walking around this floor, just improvements on the occasional lock, glows on the walls that probably heralded warded safes.

He claimed that he needed the hardening devisements renewed on the weapon's metal.

Alastair, what you and I need to do is find some way to put a devisement beacon on it.

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

But a full chime after it was warmed by the touch of a hand, its devisement would become active, radiating a beacon he or Alastair might be able to detect.

The devisement of transference was preparing to move the truck to a circle some distance away.

Later, he'd found a way to transport himself to the grim world, using his devisement arts to steal a human baby there and replace himself with it .

A very few, most of them now in this room, also knew that he was Doc's son—the powerful devisements he'd wielded throughout his life not allowing him to retain youth as Doc had, so that he appeared to be many years Doc's senior.

He spoke in High Cretanis, a language whose memory had mostly faded from the peoples of Western Europe, but the language by which devisements were most successfully cast and maintained.

When you successfully structure devisements invoking the archetype, you tend to get a more profound effect.

The devisement manifestations I saw a couple of chimes ago matched no solar persona I'm familiar with, nor either of the solar archetypes I've studied.