See devisal on Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "devise", "3": "al" }, "expansion": "devise + -al", "name": "suffix" } ], "etymology_text": "From devise + -al.", "forms": [ { "form": "devisals", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "~" }, "expansion": "devisal (countable and uncountable, plural devisals)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms suffixed with -al", "English terms with quotations", "English uncountable nouns", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries", "Quotation templates to be cleaned" ], "examples": [ { "text": "19th century, Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake\nWhat heart could have thought you?—\nPast our devisal\n(O filigree petal!)" }, { "ref": "1875, William Dwight Whitney, The Life and Growth of Language: An Outline of Linguistic Science:", "text": "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 […]", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "An act of devising." ], "links": [ [ "devising", "devise" ] ], "tags": [ "countable", "uncountable" ] } ], "word": "devisal" }
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