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devise
Verb
  • To use one's intellect to plan or design (something). transitive
  • To leave (property) in a will. transitive
  • To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. intransitive, archaic
  • To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain. transitive, archaic
  • To imagine; to guess. obsolete
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.