devise

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
2. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
3. (archaic, intransitive) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
4. (archaic, transitive) 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

formulate

plot

conceive

design

excogitate

think up

scheme

think out

concoct

forge

think

🤔

machinate

will

prepare

build

bequeath

fabricate

organise

organize

engineer

imagine

get up

make up

deliberate

coin

🪙

think of

form

project

originate

schedule

make

find

🔍

figure out

concert

lay out

give

frame

arrange

shape

discover

discern

compass

🧭

device

determine

come up

blueprint

Translations

escogitare

ideare

concevoir

inventar

inventer

tasarlamak

ausdenken

ingeniar

erdenken

verzinnen

επινοώ

inventar

erfinden

bedenken

entwickeln

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.