devicefully
English
editEtymology
editAdverb
editdevicefully (comparative more devicefully, superlative most devicefully)
- In a deviceful manner.
- a. 1631, John Donne, Elegy VII:
- I had not taught thee then the alphabet
Of flowers, how they, devicefully being set
And bound up, might with speechless secrecy
Deliver errands mutely and mutually.