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

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

Forgery :: Forgery (n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited..

Devise :: Devise (n.) Property devised, or given by will..

Will :: Will (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1..

Contrive :: Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

Excogitate :: Excogitate (v. t.) To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

Haemoscope :: Haemoscope (n.) An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination..

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

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..

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

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..

Pageant :: Pageant (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display..

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..

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument..

Construct :: Construct (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics..

Residue :: Residue (n.) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies..

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..

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

Whimsical :: Whimsical (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.

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