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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..

Slate :: Slate (v. t.) A list of candidates, prepared for nomination or for election; a list of candidates, or a programme of action, devised beforehand..

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

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..

Pasteurism :: Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength..

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

Project :: Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

Project :: Project (v. t.) To cast forward or revolve in the mind; to contrive; to devise; to scheme; as, to project a plan..

Fabulous :: Fabulous (a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero..

Will :: Will (n.) To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch..

Devisee :: Devisee (n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will..

Plot :: Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

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

Devise :: Devise (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

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..

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

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..

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

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

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