devisal

An act of devising.

Noun

  1. An act of devising.
    • 19th century, Francis Thompson, To a Snow-flake What heart could have thought you?— Past our devisal (O filigree petal!)
    • 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 […] - 1875, William Dwight Whitney, The Life and Growth...

Origin

From devise + -al.

Forms

devisals