Definition of devise

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Devise (v. t.) To imagine; to guess.

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Concert :: Concert (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.
Imagine :: Imagine (v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..
Extemporiness :: Extemporiness (n.) The quality of being done or devised extempor.
Charity :: Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions..
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..
Invent :: Invent (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine..
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false..
Devisee :: Devisee (n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will..
Devisor :: Devisor (n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee..
Plot :: Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
Testable :: Testable (a.) Capable of being devised, or given by will..
Fable :: Fable (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Pageant :: Pageant (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display..
Intestate :: Intestate (a.) Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate..
Contrivble :: Contrivble (a.) Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised..
Agitate :: Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs..
Fabulous :: Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero..
Contriver :: Contriver (n.) One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas..
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