devise

Meaning

Verb

1. To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
2. To leave (property) in a will.
3. To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
4. To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
5. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.

Noun

1. The act of leaving real property in a will.
2. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
3. The real property left in such a will.
4. Design, devising.

Synonyms

invent

contrive

plan

create

plot

formulate

design

conceive

excogitate

think out

scheme

think up

concoct

forge

machinate

think

🤔

organize

imagine

engineer

prepare

organise

get up

bequeath

make up

build

fabricate

will

project

frame

give

schedule

shape

form

think of

coin

🪙

originate

lay out

make

figure out

find

🔍

deliberate

concert

arrange

meditate

motto

mould

pencil

📝

plat

predict

prognosticate

programme

promise

propose

puzzle

refer

set up

sketch

testament

think about

picture to oneself

vamp up

visualize

write

✍️

hit upon

Testament

begin to think

come up with a plan

plan contrive

plan out

plan together

letters testamentary

anticipate

see in imagination

attempt

beget

block out

blueprint

bring about

calculate

cause

cogitate

come up

compass

🧭

compose

connive

consider

construct

contemplate

cook up

determine

device

discern

discover

donate

draw

dream up

erect

fictionalize

find out

forebode

foresee

foreshow

foretell

found

give birth

hammer

🔨

hatch

intend

lay

leave

legacy

manufacture

map

map out

mastermind

Hyphenated as

de‧vise

Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɪˈvaɪz/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: devisen

In summary

PIE word
*dwóh₁
From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō.