noun
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The act of leaving real property in a will.
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Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
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The real property left in such a will.
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Design, devising.
verb
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To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
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to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing
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To leave (property) in a will.
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To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
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To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
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To imagine; to guess.
Examples of devise in a Sentence
I prefer to use this app because it allows me to devise my own music playlists.
Devise a realistic menu and stick to it.
The engineers' newest project is to devise a more efficient water filtration system.
The purpose of this meeting is to devise a strategy for our company to pay off its debt.
Great efforts have been made to devise cottonpicking machines, but, as yet, complete success has not been attained.
This quiz is used to devise a customized diet plan.
He began to devise a plan to win her back for himself.
I imagine an eternity of punishment as only the Dark One can devise.
Manufactures were fostered in every way he could devise.
Or you can devise something with a bit of craftiness.
This was an attempt to devise a system of government that would apply to Cleveland, a city of 400,000 inhabitants, and to Painesville with its 5000 inhabitants.
Perhaps someone could devise a better method of preventing such wastage.
Devise, and make appropriate and effective use of, pre-defined elements eg templates, master pages, styles, glossaries.
Have your Information Technology (IT) specialist devise a method that will allow candidates to easily post their resumes to your site.
Who wants to know the conventionally unknowable enough to devise and use a system like the Yi?
He proved unable to devise a common plan of action on the part of the Catholic princes against Elizabeth of England and the Turks; while he was also powerless to check the, spread of brigandage in the papal state.
But does a modern pluralist society need to turn somersaults in an attempt to devise a common national identity at all?
These publications will help you devise strategies for quality improvement.
Perhaps you could also devise a place to store general craft supplies while you're organizing.
Once a determination is made that braces are needed to correct a problem, the orthodontist will devise a treatment method.
One way to devise a tasty vegan meal plan is to rely upon staples that are versatile enough to play a main role in multiple meals.
Studies can help to devise treatment plans for this puzzling illness.
Once you build up your stash of sewing notions, you will need to devise a way to organize and store your items.
Not only are there a lot of pictures to help you devise a costume, many of the better shops will have individual pieces available for rent.
Some inmates are scam artists and will devise plans to get you to send them money.
Virgos like to devise a carefully thought out plan and stick with it.
The parents usually devise schedules among themselves based on one another's needs and the number of children.
After working for several years, they were able to devise a revolutionary calculator that set the stage for the rise of compact electronic calculators.
Expanding technological frontiers has made it possible for engineers to devise miniature yet useful products like small clock radios or stereos.
The consulting company will also work with the EMS or fire department to devise a marketing program for their specific needs.
If there are specific issues or keys to customer service you feel need to be dealt with, you may want to consider hiring a skill training company which will work with you to devise a seminar that will meet your company's needs.
Keep in mind that consistency is the key when performing rehabilitation exercises, so devise an exercise schedule and stick to it.
Understanding leg anatomy can help you devise an effective thigh toning workout program.
If you don't belong to a gym, you can devise an effective thigh toning program by using a combination of resistance band, and body weight exercises such as squats and lunges.
Before you hit the shops, devise a budget for yourself and stick to it.
Instead, you can devise some kind of scoring system, such as trading chips in for tickets that allow people to bid on prizes later in the night.
Food Network Chopped pits chefs against each other in a fast paced cooking competition in which they have to devise a three course menu incorporating three mystery ingredients that are not revealed until just as the competition begins.
The chefs must devise a three course menu that incorporates each of the ingredients.
Being nervous is normal, but again, don't try to devise a personality you think they want to see.
People with experience in working the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the 9/11 attacks helped to devise the set and the challenges for the show so that the experience was a valid test of survivalist skills.
It should be possible to devise a way to resolve these sort of disputes without always creating an inconvenience for the passengers.
The difference between S-Video and Composite really depends on which devise has the better Y/C separation or comb filter.
Try to devise a way of preserving his insights while avoiding the vicious regresses to which he can give rise.
I would not eat stewed rhubarb with my fingers, or, indeed, with any instrument that science could devise.
Those who have to lead an ar my and devise stratagems, must learn the art of war.
Cromwell, who had no desire to exercise arbitrary power and whose main object therefore was to devise some constitutional limit to the authority which circumstances had placed in his hands, now accepted the written constitution drawn up by some of the officers, called the Instrument of Government, the earliest example of a "fixed government" based on "fundamentals," or constitutional guarantees, and the only example of it in English history.
In this retreat he probably wrote his eclogues, but in 1520 "Maistre Barkleye, the Blacke Monke and Poete" was desired to devise "histoires and convenient raisons to florisshe the buildings and banquet house withal" at the meeting between Henry VIII.
The suit was brought to break the will, and Webster, for the plaintiffs, after stating that the devise could stand only on condition that it was a charity, argued that it was not a charity because no teaching was such except Christian teaching.
In 1860 he was chairman of the House "Committee of Thirty-three," consisting of one member from each state, and appointed to consider the condition of the nation and, if possible, to devise some scheme for reconciling the North and the South.
Having first determined by experiment - for which he was given special facilities by the admiralty - what are the manoeuvring powers of ships propelled by steam under varying conditions of speed and helm, he proceeded to devise a system of tactics based on these data.