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

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

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

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.

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

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

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

Prepense :: Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense..

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels..

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

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..

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..

Contriver :: Contriver (n.) One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas..

Fabricate :: Fabricate (v. t.) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story..

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

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

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

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

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..

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