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Contrive :: Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

Haemoscope :: Haemoscope (n.) An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination..

Charity :: Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions..

Able :: Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property..

Ophthalmometer :: Ophthalmometer (n.) An instrument devised by Helmholtz for measuring the size of a reflected image on the convex surface of the cornea and lens of the eye, by which their curvature can be ascertained..

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

Fable :: Fable (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely..

Devise :: Devise (n.) Property devised, or given by will..

Construct :: Construct (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics..

Contrivble :: Contrivble (a.) Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised..

Whimsical :: Whimsical (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

Subtle :: Subtle (superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem..

Devise :: Devise (n.) Device. See Device.

Pantisocracy :: Pantisocracy (n.) A Utopian community, in which all should rule equally, such as was devised by Coleridge, Lovell, and Southey, in their younger days..

Self-devised :: Self-devised (a.) Devised by one's self.

Imagine :: Imagine (v. t.) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5..

Condition :: Condition (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend..

Imagine :: Imagine (v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

Devisor :: Devisor (n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee..

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