deviator 
lectual life of their fellow-men, iilc mi ant 'dent as well 
tu contemporary separation, hut an- e;ieh Hn 1 ""<' " ' 
ciivimislanees. '. X/nii-/., 1 1. I!. Hiwsctti. p. ::'.>. 
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deviatory (dC^i-a-io-n), a. [< deewte + -on/.] forceful (de-vis'ful), . [< dwfce + -/'. 1. 
Deviating iMllKiiii. r [Kare.J Full of il.vi'.-,.s; ingenious; cunning; curiou 
device Oli-vis' , /.. I Kurly mod. h. a H,toi; curiou8 i y contrived. [Bare.] 
* 
[Early mod. E. also devise; 
(i. Dan. S\v .' dcri.sr, < OF. di-risr, d/nxc, (// , 
I'.. il< fix, ilirix, m., division, difference, disppsi- 
li.ui, will, opinion, plan, contrivance, device, 
Overreaching device. Nee orerrearh. Point device. 
See i^iiut. - Syn. 5. ' >'/'<>', ft- .'- 
:,!-,.. in hur. ), wile, ruse, mannuver, trick. 7. I'' 1 
symliol. 
curious 
_'n tell the glorie of the feast that day, 
The goodly service, the il< riceftdl sights, 
The bridegromcs state, the bri'tes most rich aray. 
Spemer, . (}., V. 111. 3. 
..icefully (de-vis'ful-i), adr. [Early mod. 
also (obs.) chat, talk, = Pr. dvrina, f., devis, in., E. also derigrfully ; < di-rirrfitl + -'//".] So as 
= Sp. Pg. It. dirisa, f., a division, device, < ML. to form a design or device ; with skilful or cu- 
(^/w<,f., a division, limit, difference, judgment, rious arrangement; with artistic skill. 
mark, device, < L. dirimitt, fein. ilirixii, pp. of di- Klowers . . . devinefullu being set 
I'nli'fi-, divide: see devixi and i/ir.ide.'} If. Dis- And lioiind up, might with speechless secresy 
position; desire; will; pleasure. Deliver errands mutely and iiaturanv^ ^ v(( 
Yef the knyght he goode, he heth a horse at his device, 
and l trow ey'ei he will do all his power that he sholde di- devil (dev'l), . [Also formerly derel ('linl/, 
countite soche xx as be here. Merlin (E. E. T. s.), ill. 532. e tc. ), also and still dial, or colloq. divel (dirt II, 
2f. Opinion; view. 
Certis, as at my dews, 
ThiT is no plate In I'liriitlys 
So good lime for to dwelle. 
Itniii. of the Rote, 1. 651. 
3. The act or state of devising or inventing ; 
invention ; inventiveness ; a contriving. 
Your Inueiition being once deuised. take heede that nei- 
ther pleasure of rime, nor varletie of dettise, do carle you 
from it. <r(iwo(';;iii', Notes on Eng. Verse (ed. Arber), 1 1. 
Yet he's gentle ; never schooled, and yet learned ; full 
of noble device. Shak., As you Like it, i. 1. 
M neh of our social machinery, academic, literary, philo- 
sophic, is of his [Kranklin's] rfci-iV. . 
Theodore Parker, Historic Americans. 
4. An invention or a contrivance; something 
devised or fitted for a particular use or pur- 
etc.)) and contr. deil, deel. deal, dealt, dale, etc. ; 
< II 1 ). devil, devel, deceit, direll, deovel. contr. 
deal, dule, del, etc., < AS. deofut, deofiil, oldest 
form didbal = OS. diubal = OFries. diovel, direl, 
tiufal, tiut-al, ticj'al, MHG. tiucel, tiufel, tie/el, 
tiu-fl, G. tfiiftl = Icel. djofull = Sw. djcfrul = 
Dan. djterel = Goth, diabula, diabaulus, diabu- 
lus = OF. diable, deable, F. diable = Pr. diable, 
ili/ilxil = Sp. diablo = Pg. diabo = It. diavolo, < 
LL. diabolits, a devil, the devil, = OBulg. diyu- 
volu, dlyavolu, Bulg. diyavol = Serv. dyavo = Bo- 
hem, d^abel = Pol. djabel, dyabel (barred I) = 
Serbian dyabol = Russ. diyavolii, diacolu, devil, 
< Gr. (Sio/jioXof, a slanderer, in New Testament 
~.~,.~ f and eccl. use the devil, < diaftahfeiv, slander, 
pose, especially something of a simple char- traduce, lit. throw across, < Ad, through, across, 
acter or of little complexity : as, a device for + poJAuv, throw. Cf . diabolic, etc.] If. A false 
checking motion. accuser; a traducer or slanderer. 
Bale-tie, a device for fastening the ends of the hoops by ]nm anawere a them, Have not I chosen you twelve, 
and one of you Is a devil/ He spake of Judas Iseariot the 
for he it was that should betray him, being 
which bales of cotton are held in compact form. 
E. U. Knight. 
5. A scheme or plan; something devised or 
studied out for promoting an end ; specifically, 
something contrived for an evil or a selfish pur- 
pose ; a wrongful project, stratagem, or trick. 
Some witty deuite and fiction made for a purpose. 
Putlenham, Arte of Bug. Poesie, p. 22. 
He disappointeth the devices at the crafty. Job v. 12. 
His device is against Babylon, to destroy it. Jer. 11. 11. 
His [the Attorney-General's] Head is full of Proclama- 
tions and Devices how to bring Money into the Exchequer. 
7/omU, Letters, I. vi. 11. 
6. Something fancifully designed, as a picture, 
a pattern, a piece of embroidery, the cut or 
ornament of a garment, etc. 
And, lo, behold these talents of their hair, 
With twisted metal amorously impleach'd, 
I have received from many a several fair, 
Their kind acceptance weepingly beseech'd. . . . 
Lo, this device was sent me from a nun, 
Or sister sanctified, of holiest note. 
Sliak., Lover's Complaint, 1. 232. 
7. The representation of some object, group of 
objects, or scene, generally accompanied by a 
"~\ motto or other le- 
JeJ*V-W; i' 1 ' 
5J*$i 
son of Simon; 
one of the twelve. John vi. 70, 71. 
IThis use of the original term oia/3oAot occurs several times 
in the New Testament (1 Tim. iii. 11 ; 2 Tim. ill. 3 ; Tit. ii. 
3), but this is the only instance in which, when so used, it 
is rendered devil in the English versions.] 
2. In Christian theology, a powerful spirit of 
evil, otherwise called Satan (the adversary or 
opposer) : with the definite article, and always 
in the singular. He is frequently referred to as the 
Evil One, the prince of the powers of the air, the prince of 
darkness, Beelzebub, Belial, the tempter, the old serpent, 
the dragon, etc. He is represented in the New Testament 
as a person, the enemy of God and of holiness, and bent 
on the ruin of man, but possessing only limited power, 
subordinate to God, able to operate only in such ways as 
God permits, and capable of being made subservient to 
God's will. In this respect he differs from Ahriman, the 
evil principle in the dnalistic system of the Persians, who 
was coeval and coordinate with Ormuzd, the spirit of light 
and goodness, and from the devil of the Gnostic and Mani- 
chean systems. The medieval conception of the devil was 
largely derived from pagan mythology. 
Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness 
to be tempted of the devil. Slat. iv. 1. 
Dost thou, in the name of this Child, renounce the devil 
and all his works? 
Book of Common Prayer, Public Baptism of Infants. 
Lady it. Are you a man ? 
Mac. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that 
Which might appal the devil. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 
Note, that the climax and the crown of things 
Invariably is, the devil appears himself, 
Armed and accoutred, horns and hoofs and tail ! 
Brotming, Ring and Book, I. 190. 
3. [Used in the English versions of the New 
Testament to translate the Greek iaifiovwv and 
-- 
Device uf Francis I. 
The (iVriir of our public seal is a crane grasping a pigmy 
in his right foot Addisun, The Tall Club. 
Hence 8. The motto attached to or suited 
for such an emblem. 
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, 
A banner with the strange device, 
i:\rclsior! 
Lonyfellou; Excelsior. 
9|. A spectacle ; a show. 
Nhisijues antl i!> : t-n vs. wrlrome \ 
Shirley (and Fletcher 1 '), Coronation. 
At devicet [<>K. a devis, a derisr, at will, iii good order], 
choiecly; excellently. 
Whan the two sones of kynge Vrieil henle sey that the 
saisnes were passed, tllei weinle to bane no dowte. ami 
armed hem wele and lepte on horse, ami rode oiite of the 
gend, and used as 
an expression of the 
bearers aspirations 
or principles, it is 
usually emblematic in 
character, and often con- 
tains a puzzle or a very 
recondite allusion. It 
differs from the badge 
and the cmrntzancelii not J.KOWHUCIHI i uouoiaro u ^^-^~. . r -- -. 
being necessarily public iai/juv, a spirit or demon: see demon.] Asubor- 
and used for recognition, diliate evil spirit at enmity with God, and hav- 
although the device or j , )O wer to afflict man both with bodily disease 
' and with spiritual corruption; one of the ma- 
lignant spirits employed by Satan as his agents 
in his work of evil; a demon. See demoniacal. 
3 the Devylle that is with inne answere that he schalle 
lyve, the! kepen him wel. Mandeville, Travels, p. 201. 
He [Jesus] appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of 
whom he had cast seven devils. Mark xvi. 9. 
4. A false god ; an idol. [In the authorized version 
of the Old Testament the word devil occurs four times : 
tw.ice (Lev. xvii. 7 ; 2 I'hron. xi. 15) translating Hebrew 
sa'irim, rendered In the revised version "he-goats" or 
"satyrs," and twice (Deut xxxii. 17 : Ps. cvi. 37) translat- 
ing Hebrew shedim, rendered " demons " in the revised 
version. In the New Testament Saijioi'ux', or demon, U 
in one instance (see extract) rendered "devil," in the sense 
of an object of gentile worship, an idol, a false god.) 
The things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to 
dcmls. iiinl not to God. 1 l 'or. X. 20. 
5. A person resembling a devil or demon in 
a part of it, 
used as a cognizance. 
Book-plates formerly 
often bore a device, ami 
still occasionally display 
one. See emblem, im- 
(haracter; n malignantly wicked or cruel per- 
son; a fierce or fiendish person: often used 
with merely expletive or exaggerative force: 
devil 
Whan the criHtin saugh this grete druell [the gigantic 
Saxon kinul I-OIIIMIU.-. thii dnuUtl (feared) for to mele 
hym, the im-ie and tin- i le lianlyest of all the cristin 
hoste. .W. .-(.(I ( r. E. T. S.), III. 442. 
If Bevcrlcy should ask you what kind of a man your 
fri'-nd Acres is, do tell him I am a devil of a fellow - will 
you, Jack? Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 1. 
6. A fellow ; a rogue : used generally with an 
epithet (little, //r, etc.), and expressing slight 
contempt or pity: as, a shrewd little devil; a 
poor devil (an unfortunate fellow). [Colloq.] 
Is It not a pity that you should be so great a Coxcomb, 
and I so great a Coquette, and yet be such poor Denis as 
we are? Stale, Conscious Lovers, I. 1. 
I am apt to be taken with all kinds of people at flrst 
sight, but never more so than when a poor devil comes to 
offer his service to so poor a devil as myself. 
Sterne, Sentimental Journey, p. 32. 
Why, sure, you are not the poor devil of a lover, are 
you ? Sheridan, The Duenna, ill. 2. 
7. As an expletive : (a) The deuce : now always 
with the article the, but formerly sometimes 
with the article a, or used absolutely, preceding 
a sentence or phrase, and serving, like deuce 
and other words of related import, as an ejacu- 
lation expressing sudden emotion, as surprise, 
wonder, vexation, or disgust. [Low.] 
What a devil ails thee? 
Dost long to be hang'd? 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, III. 3. 
Within. Sir Giles, here's your niece. 
Hor. My niece ! the devil she is ! 
Shirley, Love will Find out the Way, Iv. 
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare ; 
But wonder how the devil they got there. 
Pope, Prol. to Satires, 1. 172. 
(b) Before the indefinite article with a noun, an 
emphatic negative: as, devil a bit (not a bit). 
Compare fiend, Scotch fient, in similar use. 
It is a line thing to visit castles, and lodge in inns at a 
man's pleasure, without paying the devil a cross. 
Shelton, tr. of Don Quixote, iv. 25. 
The devil a good word will she give a servant. 
Beau, and Ft., Coxcomb, v. S. 
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; 
The devil was well, the devil a monk was he ! 
Urquhart, tr. of Rabelais, Iv. 24. 
Why then, for fear, the devil a bit for love, 
I'll tell you, Sir. Diijby, Elvira, iv. 1. 
8. An errand-boy in a printing-office. See print- 
er's devil, below. 9. A name of several in- 
struments or mechanical contrivances, (a) A 
machine for forming flocks of wool into a more uniform 
mass, and at the same time removing the mechanical im- 
purities. Also called willover, willy, (b) A temporary 
mandrel or piece used by blacksmiths to till a hole, to pre- 
vent it from collapsing or changing form under the ma- 
nipulations of the workmen. When the work is completed, 
the mandrel is punched out. (c) A machine for making 
wooden screw s. E. H. Kniyht. (d) In ixiper-tualnny. a rag- 
engine, or spiked mill for tearing woolen rags into shoddy, 
or linen and cotton rags, to make paper-pulp, i'.//. Kniyht. 
(The rags must be dusted] hy the devil, a hollow cone 
with spikes projecting within, against which work the 
spikes of a drum, dashing the rags alxmt at great speed. 
Harpers Hay., LXXV. 119. 
(f) Among jewelers, a bunch of matted wire on which the 
parts of lockeU are placed for soldering. Goldsmiths' 
Handbook, p. 87. 
10t. Xaut., the seam of a ship which margins 
the waterways : so called from its awkwardness 
of access in calking. Hence the phrase the devil 
to pay, etc. See below Cartesian devil. See Car- 
Mm. Devil on two sticks, a toy consisting of a hollow 
and well-balanced piece of 
wood turned in the form =sss" - " l "T 
of an hour-glass. It U flrst ^ "" \ 
placed upon a cord loosely ^^^ \ 
hanging from two sticks V"*l 
held in the hands, and up- ^^^\ I 
on being made to rotate by ^t^ \ / 
the movement of the sticks ^^^ /"SJLXN 
it exhibits effect* some- LJ^*J 
what similar to those of a w^ ^sr 
top. Devil's advocate. 
See advocate. ^ Devil's 
apron. See dfviis-aprvn, 
Devil's claw. See cfa ir. Devil's coach-horse, the 
popular English name of a large rove-beetle, Ocypus or 
(V'Vriu* olens, belonging to the family 
Staphylinidat and tribe Brachelutra of 
the pentamerous Coleoptera ; it is com- 
mon in Great Britain, where it is also 
called cocktail, from its habit of cock- 
ing up the long jointed abdomen when 
alarmed or irritated. When it assumes 
this attitude, standing its ground de- 
fiantly with open jaws, it presents a 
dialxilical appearance, which has sug- 
gested the popular name. Also called 
ocMtVepsK 
As this atrocious tale of his turned 
up joint by joint before her, like a det- 
iCx coach-hone, mother was too much 
amazed to do any more than look at 
him, as if the earth must open. 
K. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, IT. 
Devil's cotton. See deriFt-cntton. 
Devil's COW. See demft-cow. 
Devil's dalsv. s me as oieye daity (which see, under 
d<ii*n}. Devil's darning-needle, (a) The common 
Devil on Two Sticks, showing the 
manner of rotating it. 
Devil's Coach-horse 
{Otyfus elms), nat- 
ural size. 
