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Definition of Devisers
1. deviser [n] - See also: deviser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Devisers
Literary usage of Devisers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"rules, confessed by the devisers of them not to be necessary to the being of the
Church, which common reason sees unnecessary to its well being... and which ..."
2. Universalism Asserted: On the Authority of Reason, the Fathers, and Holy by Thomas Allin (1888)
"... the devisers of the most savagely malignant revenge known to history."—Cont.
Review— words that fall very far short of the truth. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Courts of Exchequer and by Great Britain Court of Exchequer, Roger Meeson, William Newland Welsby, John Innes Clark Hare, Great Britain Court of Exchequer Chamber, Horace Binney Wallace (1845)
"... ^^g°we or tion from the same, whereby to pretend himself or them- Put in
practice selves to be the inventor or inventors, deviser or devisers tion, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature by William Johnson (1865)
"... that the acceptance and enjoyment of the estate devised, and an actual payment
of part of the annuity by the devisers, was conclusive evidence of, ..."
5. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... abettors, contrivers, devisers, or art and part thereof : und the мине being
so verified aad proved, to hear and si-e it found and declared, ..."
6. The Literary Life and Miscellanies of John Galt by John Galt (1834)
"Thus, in the scheme I in like manner propose, the number of participators or
devisers would be 20000, and the amount would be L.I2,500 at the beginning, ..."
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