devised
adjective
contrived, planned, invented, or designed.
self-devised
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a word derived from
devised.
Example Sentences
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Most of my recovery grew from my own self-devised therapies.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 25, 2023
But Roiphe’s essay, which Harper’s published on Super Bowl Sunday, falls into many of the same self-devised traps as the #MeToo criticism that’s preceded it.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2018
Whether he likes it or not, his show, an anthology of horror stories about technologically oppressive futures, has emerged as an uncanny symbol of humanity’s headlong leap into a self-devised digital hell.
From The Verge ● Oct. 9, 2017
I complain that they do not keep their own self-devised canon law, though it is, to be sure, mere tyranny, avarice and temporal splendor, rather than law.
From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther
What are called "natural religions" represent man's self-devised attempts to explain the reality answering to his religious and moral cravings.
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by George Tyrrell
