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deˈviceful, a. Now rare.
[f. prec. + -ful.]
Full of, or characterized by, device, ingenuity or invention; ingenious, ‘cunning’, ‘curious’.
1590Spenser Teares of Muses 385 The devicefull matter of my song. 1596― F.Q. v. iii. 3 To tell the glorie of the feast..The goodly service, the devicefull sights..Were worke fit for an herauld. 1606Marston Parasitaster iii. i, Oh quick, deviceful, strong-brain'd Dulcimel, Thou art too full of wit to be a wife. 1615Chapman Odyss. i. 206 A carpet, rich and of deviceful thread. 1621Quarles Argalus & P. (1656) 24 The quaint Impresas their deviseful shows. 1681H. More in Glanvill Sadducismus i. Postcr. (1726) 18 In his deviceful imagination.
Hence deˈvicefully († devisefully) adv., ingeniously, ‘cunningly’; devicefulness.
a1631Donne Poems (1650) 77 The Alphabet Of flowers, how they devisefully being set And bound up, might..Deliver errands mutely, and mutually. 1894Liberal 17 Nov. 3/2 It was from the Germans that the Japs derived all their discipline and devicefulness. |