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English
Etymology
From device + -ful.
Pronunciation
Adjective
deviceful (comparative more deviceful, superlative most deviceful)
- (now rare) Full of devices; inventive.
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:To tell the glorie of the feast that day, / The goodly service, the deviceful sights, / […] Were worke fit for an Heraud, not for me […]
1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. , London: Rich Field , for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, , volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, , 1857, →OCLC:A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread.
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