devise

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪˈvaɪz/

Verb

devise (devises, present participle devising; past and past participle devised)

1. (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).

   to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing

   • devising schemes to realize his ambitious views

2. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
   • RQ
4. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.

   • For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise.

5. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.

Translations

• French: concevoir, élaborer
• German: ausdenken, entwerfen, erdenken, planen
• Italian: architettare, congegnare, escogitare, inventare
• Portuguese: inventar, tramar, delinear, projetar, idear
• Russian: разраба́тывать
• Spanish: concebir, inventar

Translations

• Spanish: tramar, maquinar

Translations

• German: letztwillig vermachen, durch Testament verfügen
• Portuguese: legar, deixar
• Russian: завеща́ть
• Spanish: legar

Noun

devise (plural devises)

1. The act of leaving real property in a will.
2. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.

   • Fines upon devises were still exacted.

3. The real property left in such a will.
4. Design, devising.
   • 2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain ISBN 1453547460, page 83

     I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]

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