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Devise [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Primarily, a dividing or division; hence, the act of bequeathing by will; the act of giving or distributing real estate by a testator.

2. A will or testament.

3. A share of estate bequeathed.

4. Contrivance; scheme invented.

Devise [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To consider; to contrive; to lay a plan; to form a scheme.

2. DEVISE how you will use him, when he comes.

3. Formerly followed by of; as, let us devise of ease.

Devise [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. [Latin]

2. To invent; to contrive; to form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to excogitate; to strike out by thought; to plan; to scheme; to project; as, to devise an engine or machine; to devise a new mode of writing; to devise a plan of defense; to devise arguments.

3. To devise curious works in gold and silver. Exodus 35:32 .

4. In a bad sense:

5. DEVISE not evil against thy neighbor. Proverbs 3:29 .

6. To give or bequeath by will, as land or other real estate.

Devise [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

2. A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.

3. Property devised, or given by will.

4. Device. See Device.

Devise [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

Devise [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

3. To say; to relate; to describe.

4. To imagine; to guess.

5. To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.

Devise Encyclopedia Britannica

DEVISE. See Will.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 7, p. 138
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Devised [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Given by will; bequeathed; contrived.

Devised [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Devise

Devisee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The person to whom a devise is made; one to whom real estate is bequeathed.

Devisee [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

Deviser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One who contrives or invents; a contriver; an inventor.

Deviser [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who devises.

Imagination Roget’s Thesaurus §515

N. imagination, originality, invention, fancy, inspiration, verve, warm imagination, heated imagination, excited imagination, sanguine imagination, ardent imagination, fiery imagination, boiling imagination, wild imagination, bold imagination, daring imagination, playful imagination, lively imagination, fertile imagination, fancy, "mind's eye", "such stuff as dreams are made of", ideality, idealism, romanticism, utopianism, castle-building, dreaming, phrensy, frenzy, ecstasy, extasy, calenture, reverie, trance, day dream, golden dream, somnambulism, conception, vorstellung, excogitation, "a fine frenzy", cloudland, dreamland, flight of fancy, fumes of fancy, "thick coming fancies", creation of the brain, coinage of the brain, imagery, conceit, maggot, figment, myth, dream, vision, shadow, chimera, phantasm, phantasy, fantasy, fancy, whim, whimsey, whimsy, vagary, rhapsody, romance, gest, geste, extravaganza, air drawn dagger, bugbear, nightmare, flying dutchman, great sea serpent, man in the moon, castle in the air, pipe dream, pie-in-the-sky, chateau en espagne, utopia, atlantis, happy valley, millennium, fairyland, land of prester john, kingdom of micomicon, work of fiction, arabian nights, le pot au lait, dream of alnashar, illusion, phantom, fata morgana, vapor, stretch of the imagination, mythogenesis, idealist, romanticist, visionary, mopus, romancer, dreamer, somnambulist, rhapsodist, castle-buildier, fanciful projector

V. imagine, fancy, conceive, idealize, realize, dream, dream of, dream up, "give to airy nothing a local habitation and a name", create, originate, devise, invent, coin, fabricate, improvise, strike out something new, set one's wits to work, strain one's invention, crack one's invention, rack one's brains, ransack one's brains, cudgel one's brains, excogitate, brainstorm, give play, give the reins, give a loose to the imagination, give fancy, indulge in reverie, visualize, envision, conjure up a vision, fancy oneself, represent oneself, picture, picture-oneself, figure to oneself, vorstellen, float in the mind, suggest itself

Adj. imagined, ben trovato, air drawn, airbuilt, imagining, v, imaginative, original, inventive, creative, fertile, romantic, high flown, flighty, extravagant, fanatic, enthusiastic, unrealistic, utopian, quixotic, ideal, unreal, in the clouds, in nubibus, unsubsantial, illusory, fabulous, legendary, mythical, mythic, mythological, chimerical, imaginary, visionary, notional, fancy, fanciful, fantastic, fantastical, whimsical, fairy, fairy-like, gestic

Phr. "a change came o'er the spirit of my dream", aegri somnia vana, dolphinum appingit sylvis in fluctibus aprum, "fancy light from fancy caught", "imagination rules the world", l'imagination gallope, le jugement ne va que le pas, musaeo contingens cuncta lepore, tous songes sont mensonges, wahrheil und dichtung

Plan Roget’s Thesaurus §626

N. plan, scheme, design, project, proposal, proposition, suggestion, resolution, motion, precaution, deep-laid plan, system, organization, germ, sketch, skeleton, outline, draught, draft, ebauche, brouillon, rough cast, rough draft, draught copy, copy, proof, revise, drawing, scheme, schematic, graphic, chart, flow chart (representation) 554, forecast, program(me), prospectus, carte du pays, card, bill, protocol, order of the day, list of agenda, bill of fare, base of operations, platform, plank, slate, ticket, role, policy, contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device, pipelaying, stratagem, trick, alternative, loophole, shift, last shift, measure, step, stroke, stroke of policy, master stroke, trump card, court card, cheval de bataille, great gun, coup, coup d'etat, clever stroke, bold stroke, good move, good hit, good stroke, bright thought, bright idea, intrigue, cabal, plot, conspiracy, complot, machination, subplot, underplot, counterplot, schemer, schemist, schematist|, strategist, machinator, projector, artist, promoter, designer, conspirator, intrigant

V. plan, scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch, devise, invent, set one's wits to work, spring a project, fall upon, hit upon, strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out, lay down a plan, shape out a course, mark out a course, predetermine, concert, preconcert, preestablish, prepare, hatch, hatch a plot concoct, take steps, take measures, cast, recast, systematize, organize, arrange, digest, mature, plot, counter-plot, counter-mine, dig a mine, lay a train, intrigue

Adj. planned, strategic, strategical, planning, prepared, in course of preparation, under consideration, on the tapis, on the carpet, on the floor

Giving Roget’s Thesaurus §784

N. giving, bestowal, bestowment, # donation, presentation, presentment, accordance, concession, delivery, consignment, dispensation, communication, endowment, investment, investiture, award, almsgiving, charity, liberality, generosity, gift, donation, present, cadeau, fairing, free gift, boon, favor, benefaction, grant, offering, oblation, sacrifice, immolation, lagniappe, pilon, grace, act of grace, bonus, allowance, contribution, subscription, subsidy, tribute, subvention, bequest, legacy, devise, will, dotation, dot, appanage, voluntary settlement, voluntary conveyance, amortization, alms, largess, bounty, dole, sportule|, donative, help, oblation, offertory, honorarium, gratuity, peter pence, sportula, christmas box, easter offering, vail, douceur, drink money, pourboire, trinkgeld, bakshish, fee, consideration, bribe, bait, ground bait, peace offering, handsel, boodle*, graft, grease*, blat, giver, grantor, donor, feoffer, settlor

V. deliver, hand, pass, put into the hands of, hand over, make over, deliver over, pass over, turn over, assign dower, present, give away, dispense, dispose of, give out, deal out, dole out, mete out, fork out, squeeze out, pay, render, impart, communicate, concede, cede, yield, part with, shed, cast, spend, give, bestow, confer, grant, accord, award, assign, intrust, consign, vest in, make a present, allow, contribute, subscribe, furnish its quota, invest, endow, settle upon, bequeath, leave, devise, furnish, supply, help, administer to, afford, spare, accommodate with, indulge with, favor with, shower down upon, lavish, pour on, thrust upon, tip, bribe, tickle the palm, grease the palm, offer, sacrifice, immolate

Adj. giving, given, allowed, allowable, concessional, communicable, charitable, eleemosynary, sportulary|, tributary, gratis, donative

Phr. auctor pretiosa facit, ex dono, res est ingeniosa dare

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Genesis 11:6

And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.

And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.

Exodus 31:4

To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

Exodus 35:32

And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze,

Exodus 35:35

Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

He has filled them with skill to do all kinds of work as engravers, designers, embroiderers in blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine linen, and as weavers—as artistic designers of every kind of craft.

2 Samuel 14:13

And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.

The woman asked, “Why have you devised a thing like this against the people of God? When the king says this, does he not convict himself, since he has not brought back his own banished son?

2 Samuel 14:14

For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

For surely we will die and be like water poured out on the ground, which cannot be recovered. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises ways that the banished one may not be cast out from Him.

2 Samuel 21:5

And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,

And they answered the king, “As for the man who consumed us and plotted against us to exterminate us from existing within any border of Israel,

1 Kings 12:33

So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.

On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.

Esther 7:5

Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?

Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”

Esther 8:3

And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

And once again, Esther addressed the king. She fell at his feet weeping and begged him to revoke the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

Esther 8:5

And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:

“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

Esther 9:24

Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Psalms 10:2

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalms 21:11

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Though they intend You harm, the schemes they devise will not prevail.

Psalms 31:13

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

Psalms 35:4

Let them be confounded and put to shame that seek after my soul: let them be turned back and brought to confusion that devise my hurt.

May those who seek my life be disgraced and put to shame; may those who plan to harm me be driven back and confounded.

Psalms 35:20

For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.

For they do not speak peace, but they devise deceitful schemes against those who live quietly in the land.

Psalms 36:4

He deviseth mischief upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.

Psalms 41:7

All that hate me whisper together against me: against me do they devise my hurt.

All who hate me whisper against me; they imagine the worst for me: