·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.
IV. Devise ·vt To Imagine; to Guess.
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.
VII. Devise ·vt To Say; to Relate; to Describe.
VIII. Devise ·vi To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to Contrive; to Consider.
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.