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devised

[dih-vahyz]

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verb (used with object)

to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.

Law. to assign or transmit (property) by will.

Archaic. to imagine; suppose.

verb (used without object)

to form a plan; contrive.

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an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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noun

Law.

the act of disposing of property, especially real property, by will.

a will or clause in a will disposing of property, especially real property.

the property so disposed of.

Origin:
1150–1200; (v.) Middle English devisen to inspect, design, compose < Old French deviser < Vulgar Latin *dēvīsāre, for *dīvīsāre, frequentative of Latin dīvidere to divide; (noun) see device

Related forms

de·vis·er, noun

pre·de·vise, verb (used with object), -vised, -vis·ing.

self-de·vised, adjective

un·de·vised, adjective

well-de·vised, adjective

Can be confused: device, devise.

Synonyms
1. See prepare.

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Example Sentences

DeBakey, seated, became the oldest patient to benefit from heart surgery he devised.

The project was devised this year but was put on hold while the foundation searched for a new executive director.

There is a whole world of anti-Barbies, devised for reasons of protest and humour.

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DeBakey, seated, became the oldest patient to benefit from heart surgery he devised.

The project was devised this year but was put on hold while the foundation searched for a new executive director.

There is a whole world of anti-Barbies, devised for reasons of protest and humour.

The researchers devised a sensitive detection system and placed it in the hives to record the bees' sounds.

Morley devised an experiment to demonstrate this difference.

Everyone pitches in, and no single authority has devised the organizing criteria.

Inspired by a seesaw, he devised a swinging lever that tightened the mainspring as it moved.

One academic-technology leader has devised a personal experiment to test the iPad's limits.

American soapmakers devised an ingenious way to market their product.

We devised this schedule after extensive consultation with teachers.

Therefore, physicists have devised clever but devilishly difficult mathematical methods to extract comprehension from the chaos.

Design-from case to menus- clearly devised by engineers.

Lepper, devised a series of studies that replicated the problem of too much choice.

Now, one of them has devised a way to make that experience a little less tedious.

To explain the discrepancies, astronomers devised the concept of inflation.

Chemists have devised less expensive methods for tapping the energy potential of this ubiquitous element.

Australian researchers have devised a novel way to dry-clean birds caught in oil spills.

If only there were a hell for the vicious inhuman wretch who devised that insult to viewers.

Researchers have devised ways to make flexible electronics, for such things as electronic paper.

He devised a plan and shared it with several of his friends.

But no country has yet devised a broad regulatory framework for the research.

He devised rough plans, so to speak, for a shaving head at the end of a flexible cable that was powered by an external motor.

They have devised a method that might stop the plaques from forming in the first place.

The robot devised experiments to test these beliefs, ran the experiments, and interpreted the results.

They've built machines, made wired roads, and devised experiments to create natural testing environments.

Now a team of researchers has devised a lightbulb that is not only much more energy efficient.

That, though, would be an admission that the system he devised had failed.

These anchors are devised in prosperous times but run into difficulty during recessions.

Scientists have devised a way to get the same quality using a single pixel.

Now researchers have devised a way to use black box info from planes.

And a clever one at that, because he's devised a way to sustain himself and the object of.

To keep stakes close at hand, he devised containers.

Regardless of who devised it, the original code was a little different than the one in use today.

Looking as if it were devised on acid and executed on.

They are conventions that have been created, adapted, and/or devised by nature and humans.

Since then, human ingenuity has devised ways to detect.

Living off a bounty of corn, they devised an elaborate calendar.

Zeppos, the university's governing board devised a retention plan.

Wildlife biologists have devised low-cost solutions for the.

By surrounding carbon nanotubes with cellulose, researchers have devised a flexible, paper-thin power source.

Some businesses and public places have devised ways to deal with the phenomenon.

The rubric you've devised seems to do precisely that.

Historically, they have been devised by trial and error.

Meteorologists have devised several formulas for calculating the energy produced by hurricanes during a season.

But if a newly devised virus can do the job, it could track down.

He also devised the drive pipe, made of segmented cast iron, as a boring tool.

Johnson and his team have devised a computer model capable of simulating past and future amounts of space junk.

He moved the eye of the needle to the point and devised a shuttle to move a second thread through the loop created by the needle.

They were devised to give the general investor a guide to the overall mood of the market.

Schweitzer is part of a team that has devised a method to determine whether dinosaur fossils are from males or females.

Throughout all times and places our many cultures have devised fascinating.

Scientists have devised a new way to transform coal into gas for your car using far less energy than the current process.

Americans trash the planet not because we're evil, but because the industrial systems we've devised leave no other choice.

To keep it from pushing the supporting walls out, the architects and builders devised some ingenious solutions.

With the help of a single atom, physicists have devised a system in which one light beam can turn another on or off.

No one has yet devised a comprehensible or testable theory of the soul.

To test this, he and some colleagues devised some mischievous variations on the footbridge problem.

Originally devised for a single closed economy, it can today be more realistically applied to the global economy.

Researchers devised a recipe for growing bioengineered blood vessels made from human cells.

The team essentially devised a three-dimensional model that incorporated time into the relationship between people and movies.

He devised a way of moving a patient from a stretcher to a hospital bed with the minimum of discomfort.

The layout was devised with the help of a custom algorithm.

He gutted the insides and devised a way to fit existing electronics inside.

The two researchers therefore devised a second experiment.

The mechanisms behind this concoction, carefully devised though it might be, are not always well comprehended.

The people who administer the system, the heirs of those who devised it, stand to gain enormously from its perpetuation.

From the lab results a custom diet and nutrition plan can be devised even to the time of day you need support the most.

The need for such tests has been recognized for more than a decade, but no one has yet devised a sound testing protocol.

So scientists devised a test to measure the molecules-and use that to infer someone's age based on his or her blood.

Thus virtual particles are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised ways of measuring.

Mahajan and her team also devised a method for figuring out whether the monkeys harbor negative feelings towards outsiders.

For a clock ticks away at an arbitrary unit devised to represent time totally unrelated to the universe.

Samuel devised a neat method of avoiding this difficulty.

If it is still active, an experiment should be devised to expose its function.

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Word Origin & History

devise

c.1300, from O.Fr. deviser "dispose in portions, arrange, plan, contrive," from V.L. *divisare, freq. of L. dividere "to divide" (see divide). Modern sense is from "to arrange a division" (especially via a will), a meaning present in the O.Fr. word.

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"We walk along the cliff, and I feel a sudden impulse to push you over, which I promptly do: I acted on impulse, yet I certainly intended to push you over, and may even have devised a little ruse to achieve it; yet even then I did not act deliberately, for I did not (stop to) ask myself whether to do it or not."

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