Devising: alternatives and connections

Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

To form in the mind; to plan; to devise; to generate; to originate; as, to conceive a purpose, plan, hope.

To plan; to devise; to arrange.

To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligati…

To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics.

To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought…

of Devise

One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.

Designed to be executed or carried into effect in time to come, or to take effect on a future contingency; as, an executory devise, re…

To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely.

To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely; as, to fabricate a lie or story.

To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false.

To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5.