devise

/dɪˈvaɪz/

verb5

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To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
- Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […] — 1503
To leave (property) in a will.
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(no longer used) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer. — 1725
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(no longer used) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
- For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore / They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize, — 1596
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(no longer used) To imagine; to guess.
- I do protest I neuer iniur’d thee, But lou’d thee better then thou can’st deuise: Till thou shalt know the reason of my loue. — 1591

forms

devised · devisedst · devising · devises · deviseth · devisest