Definition of "deviceful"

deviceful

/dɪˈvaɪsfəl/

adjective
comparative more deviceful, superlative most deviceful
1. (now rare) Full of devices; inventive.
  Quotations
  To tell the glorie of the feast that day, / The goodly service, the deviceful sights, / […] Were worke fit for an Heraud, not for me […]
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
  A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread.The spelling has been modernized.
  1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volumes (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857,