devise
IPA: dɪvˈaɪz
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
- (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
- (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
- (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
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Examples of "devise" in Sentences
- I must devise some methods.
- The people devised the event.
- The machine was devised in a hurry.
- The men devised the plan on their own.
- He devised the phrase ambulatory psychosis.
- The people devised the plan to be implemented.
- The INR was devised to standardize the results.
- The alternative devised by Hanoi was ingenious.
- Advisers devised a strategy of interlocutory delay.
- The Fourteenth Amendment was devised to meet this exigency.
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