Deviser [noun]

The deviser of Utopias had such an opening as had never occurred in the world's history.

Its deviser is, more than likely, as undiscoverable as the name of the valiant antediluvian who first tasted an oyster.

Had the deviser been less charitable, William and John had been less guilty: the gift of one man becomes a temptation to another.

The conversation was reported to Henry, who caught at the scheme and summoned its deviser to talk to him.

The usual compliments, however, were showered on Mrs. Trent as the deviser of so remarkable a theatre.

Alexander Hamilton was the deviser and establisher of the government of the United States.

All that I had to do, then, was to find the deviser of the three-foot poster.

And the Jews devised a stratagem against him; but God devised a stratagem against them; and God is the best deviser of stratagems.

Menestheus, son of Peteos prince renown'd, And thou, deviser of all evil wiles!

Mr. Smith was the chief deviser of the substance of the Entertainments of the elder Charles Mathews.