Devise

v. t.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Devised ; p. pr. & vb. n. Devising.] To devise curious works. - Ex. CCTV. 32. Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views. - Bancroft.
	2.	To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore They are which fortunes do by vows devise. - Spenser.
	3.	To say; to relate; to describe.
	4.	To imagine; to guess.
	5.	(Law) To give by will; - used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
v. i.	1.	To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer. - Pope.
n.	1.	The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; - sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
	2.	A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. Fines upon devises were still exacted. - Bancroft.
	3.	Property devised, or given by will.
	1.	Device. See Device.

Noun	1.	devise - a will disposing of real property
	2.	devise - (law) a gift of real property by will
Verb	1.	devise - come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to measure the speed of light" Synonyms: excogitate, invent, contrive, formulate, forge
	2.	devise - arrange by systematic planning and united effort; "machinate a plot"; "organize a strike"; "devise a plan to take over the director's office" Synonyms: machinate, prepare, organise, organize, get up
	3.	devise - give by will, especially real property

DEVISE. A devise is a disposition of real property by a person's last will and testament, to tale effect after the testator's death.
     2. Its form is immaterial, provided the instrument is to take effect after the death of the party; and a paper in the form of an indenture, which is to have that effect, is considered as a devise. Finch. 195 6 Watts, 522; 3 Rawle, 15; 4 Desaus. 617, 313; 1 Mod. 117; 1 Black. R. 345.
     3. The term devise, properly and technically, applies only to real estate the object of the devise must therefore be that kind of property. 1 Hill. Ab. ch. 36, n. 62 to 74. Devise is also sometimes improperly applied to a bequest or legacy. (q.v.) Vide 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 2095, et seq; 4 Kent, Com. 489 8 Vin. Ab. 41 Com. Dig. Estates by Devise.
     4. In the Year Book, 9 H. VI. 24, b. A. D. 1430, Babington says, the nature of a devise, when lands are devisable, is, that one can devise that his lands shall be sold by executors and this is good. And a devise in such form has always been in use. And so a man may have frank tenement of him who had nothing, in the same manner as one may have fire from a flint, and yet there is no fire in the flint. But it is to perform the last will of the devisor.

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