Devise (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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verb (used with object), de·vised, de·vis·ing.
  1. to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
  2. to develop (a play) collaboratively with the performers: Based on the lives of women in engineering, the students devised the play themselves.
  3. to assign or transmit (property) by will.
  4. to imagine; suppose.
verb (used without object), de·vised, de·vis·ing.
  1. to form a plan; contrive.
noun
  1. Law.
    • the act of disposing of property, especially real property, by will.
    • a will or clause in a will disposing of property, especially real property.
    • the property so disposed of.
verb
  1. to work out, contrive, or plan (something) in one's mind
  2. to dispose of (property, esp real property) by will
  3. to imagine or guess
noun law
    • a disposition of property by will
    • the property so transmitted
  2. a will or clause in a will disposing of real property
Devise (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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