What is "devisements"

Usage examples of "devisements".

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

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.

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.

Nor did she seem nervous two bells later, after they'd seen their film play—a mystery from the League of Ardree, in which a master detective deduced which of three impossible devisements had actually caused the murder—and begun their walk home, a roundabout route chosen by Rudi.

Other devisements are a little outside my line," the doctor shouted back.

Alastair's medical devisements had in fact worked wonders on his nose, restoring it to its proper shape by morning, but they hadn't stopped it from hurting.

It was not too extravagant a dress in appearance, but it was costly of make, with devisements bound into it to keep it light so that wearing it did not tax her.