devise

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To invent or plan something clever, often a method, system, or scheme.

   The team devised a clever plan to cut costs without losing customers.

2. 2
   noun

   In law, a gift of land or property left to someone in a will.

   Under the devise in her will, the farmhouse passed to her eldest son.

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

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