devise
/dɪˈvaɪz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.19 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of leaving real property in a will.
noun
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
noun
The real property left in such a will.
Example Sentences
- "Near-synonyms: lay, set, design, plan, create"
- "to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing"
- "Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […]"
- "His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth. As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme: Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts. To pull the triple headed dog from hell."
- "devising schemes to realize his ambitious views"
- "Thus, the task of the linguist devising a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to devise a finite set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an infinite set of well-formed sentences."
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devisō, from Latin dīvisō, frequentative of dīvidō.