devise.
To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
Meaning & usage
To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing
To leave (property) in a will.
To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
To imagine; to guess.
Where this word comes from
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō.
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
The real property left in such a will.
Design, devising.
Where this word comes from
From Middle French devise. Doublet of device.
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