·noun Property devised, or given by will.
II. Devise ·noun Device.
·see Device.
III. Devise ·vt To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
V. Devise ·vt To give by will;
- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
VI. Devise ·noun A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
IX. Devise ·noun The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will;
- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
X. Devise ·vt To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to
Contrive; to
Excogitate; to
Invent; to
Plan; to
Scheme; as, to
devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an
Argument.