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Webster 1913 Edition


Deviceful

De-vice′ful

,
Adj.
Full of devices; inventive.
[R.]
A carpet, rich, and of
deviceful
thread.
Chapman.

Webster 1828 Edition


Deviceful

DEVICEFUL

,
Adj.
Full of devices; inventive.

Definition 2024


deviceful

deviceful

English

Adjective

deviceful (comparative more deviceful, superlative most deviceful)

  1. (now rare) Full of devices; inventive.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.3:
      To tell the glorie of the feast that day, / The goodly service, the deviceful sights, / […] Were worke fit for an Heraud, not for me […].
    A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.