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Meaning of "devised" and the crossword clue

- Contrive
- Form a plan
- Invent
- Thought up
- 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.
- To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
- To say; to relate; to describe.
- To imagine; to guess.
- To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
- To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
- A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
- Property devised, or given by will.
- Device. See Device.
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