devise
verb
[ dɪˈvʌɪz ]
• plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought.
• "a training programme should be devised"
Similar:
conceive,
think up,
come up with,
dream up,
draw up,
work out,
form,
formulate,
concoct,
design,
frame,
invent,
coin,
originate,
compose,
construct,
fabricate,
create,
produce,
put together,
make up,
develop,
evolve,
discover,
hit on,
hatch,
cook up,
contrive,
• leave (something, especially real estate) to someone by the terms of a will.
devise
noun
• a clause in a will leaving something, especially real estate, to someone.
Origin:
Middle English: the verb from Old French deviser, from Latin divis- ‘divided’, from the verb dividere (this sense being reflected in the original English sense of the verb); the noun is a variant of device (in the early sense ‘will, desire’).
