"devisal" meaning in English

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          "text": "19th century, Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake\nWhat heart could have thought you?—\nPast our devisal\n(O filigree petal!)"
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          "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 […]",
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        "An act of devising."
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          "text": "19th century, Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake\nWhat heart could have thought you?—\nPast our devisal\n(O filigree petal!)"
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