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Devised :: Devised (imp. & p. p.) of Devis.

Leucoscope :: Leucoscope (n.) An instrument, devised by Professor Helmholtz, for testing the color perception of the eye, or for comparing different lights, as to their constituent colors or their relative whiteness..

Concert :: Concert (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.

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..

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

Testable :: Testable (a.) Capable of being devised, or given by will..

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

Devise :: Devise (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

Extemporiness :: Extemporiness (n.) The quality of being done or devised extempor.

Heliometer :: Heliometer (n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

Phonotypy :: Phonotypy (n.) A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character..

Deviser :: Deviser (n.) One who devises.

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

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

Logarithm :: Logarithm (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division..

Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..

Abator :: Abator (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

Point-devise :: Point-devise (adv.) Exactly.

Residue :: Residue (n.) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies..

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

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