Definition of devise

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

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Project :: Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.
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..
Deviser :: Deviser (n.) One who devises.
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..
Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..
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..
Contrive :: Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
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..
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..
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..
Conceive :: Conceive (v. t.) To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope..
Whimsical :: Whimsical (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.
Plot :: Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
Contrivble :: Contrivble (a.) Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised..
Devise :: Devise (n.) Property devised, or given by will..
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..
Imagine :: Imagine (v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
Self-devised :: Self-devised (a.) Devised by one's self.
Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
Devisee :: Devisee (n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will..
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