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Definition of Devisals
1. devisal [n] - See also: devisal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devisals
Literary usage of Devisals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotlandby Robert William Billings, John Hill Burton by Robert William Billings, John Hill Burton (1901)
"... those who had been trained in Gothic work, though the style was then degenerating,
and required a successor in some new devisals, or old system revived. ..."
2. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1844)
"... away with ;—a few sets of richly-bound books, presents to her father from his
favourite pupils,— a few articles of plate, family devisals to her mother. ..."
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