As verbs the difference between devize and devive
is that devize is while devive is to render lifeless.
devize
English
Verb
(
head)
* 1595 , (Edmund Spenser), Sonnet LXXV:
- Not so, quod I, let baser things devize
devive
English
Verb
(en-verb)
To render lifeless.
Antonyms
* revive