Associations to the word «Devise»
Noun
- Ingenuity
- Scheme
- Plan
- Strategy
- Ruse
- Method
- Means
- Remedy
- Invention
- Wit
- Tactic
- Solution
- Compass
- Lure
- Algorithm
- Trap
- Measuring
- Experiment
- Measure
- Psychologist
- Linguist
- Edison
- Technique
- Motto
- Procedure
- Compromise
- Render
- Mechanism
- Test
- Wendell
- Taxation
- Scientist
- Construct
- Terminology
- Mankind
- Colleague
- Execution
- Orthography
- Antecedent
- Lagos
- Implement
- Alphabet
- Overflow
- Repentance
- Bondage
- Devise
- Gan
- Apparatus
- Bot
- Commandment
- Bribe
- Notation
- Envy
- Lust
- Amour
- Tremble
- Wherefore
- Nomenclature
Adjective
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Wiktionary
DEVISE, verb. (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
DEVISE, verb. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
DEVISE, verb. (intransitive) (archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
DEVISE, verb. (transitive) (archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
DEVISE, verb. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
DEVISE, noun. The act of leaving real property in a will.
DEVISE, noun. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
DEVISE, noun. The real property left in such a will.
DEVISE, noun. Design, devising.
Dictionary definition
DEVISE, noun. A will disposing of real property.
DEVISE, noun. (law) a gift of real property by will.
DEVISE, verb. Come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light".
DEVISE, verb. Arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office".
DEVISE, verb. Give by will, especially real property.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.