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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.
Definition 2024
deviceful
deviceful
English
Adjective
deviceful (comparative more deviceful, superlative most deviceful)
- (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.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.3: