Definition of devise

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

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Self-devised :: Self-devised (a.) Devised by one's self.
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..
Concert :: Concert (v. t.) To plan; to devise; to arrange.
Forgery :: Forgery (n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited..
Prepense :: Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense..
Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..
Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him..
Fabricate :: Fabricate (v. t.) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story..
Plot :: Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
Devise :: Devise (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
Imagine :: Imagine (v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
Devise :: Devise (n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property..
Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.
Devisable :: Devisable (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived..
Executory :: Executory (a.) Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, reminder, or estate; an executory contract..
Whimsical :: Whimsical (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
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..
Devise :: Devise (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
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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