devise
noun
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L319391 on Wikidata ↗verb
- come up with
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /dɪˈvaɪz/
noun
Etymology: From Middle French devise. Doublet of device.
- The act of leaving real property in a will.
- Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
“Fines upon devises were still exacted.”
- The real property left in such a will.
- Design, devising.
“I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]”
verb
Etymology: PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō.
- To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
“Near-synonyms: lay, set, design, plan, create”
“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.
“I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.”
- To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
“For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore / They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize,”
- To imagine; to guess.
“I do protest I neuer iniur’d thee, But lou’d thee better then thou can’st deuise: Till thou shalt know the reason of my loue.”