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verb (used with object)
1.
to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
2.
Law. to assign or transmit (property) by will.
3.
Archaic. to imagine; suppose.
verb (used without object)
4.
to form a plan; contrive.
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Undevised
is always a great word to know.
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noun
5.
Law.
a.
the act of disposing of property, especially real property, by will.
b.
a will or clause in a will disposing of property, especially real property.
c.
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
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), pre·de·vised, pre·de·vis·ing.
self-de·vised, adjective
un·de·vised, adjective
well-de·vised, adjective
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