devise

Meanings

Verb

• To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
• To leave (property) in a will.
• To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
• To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
• To imagine; to guess.

Noun

• The act of leaving real property in a will.
• Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
• The real property left in such a will.
• Design, devising.

Origin

• From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō.