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Definition of devise : 1. A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
2. Device. See Device.
3. Property devised, or given by will.
4. To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
5. 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.
6. To give by will; - used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
7. To imagine; to guess.
8. To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
9. To say; to relate; to describe.

Synonyms:

gussy up, dream up, trick up, give voice, work up, manufacture, dope out, law, excogitate, educate, mold, cook up, rise, unionize, arise, grind away, dress up, spirt, give, set up, conspire, bequeath, contemplate, muse, mould, trick out, throw, conjure, mastermind, cram, rig out, prink, swot, deck out, deck up, lift, coordinate, concoct, hatch, lay, leave, organise, make up, tog up, bone up, mull over, overdress, fig out, complot, reflect, spurt, get-up, will, explicate, train, fancy up, contrive, hammer, machinate, groom, counterfeit, mull, raise, think over, planned, gear up, direct, fake, forge, project, conceive, fig up, ruminate, phrase, work out, strategize, ponder, bring up, articulate, attire, work, cook, bone, chew over, speculate, stand up, meditate, mug up, swot up, turn out, cabal, uprise, think up, unionise, invent, word, blueprint, engineer, tog out, elevate, drum

fix, collate, rank, regulate, unify, establish, categorize, group, balance, plan, prepare, screen, array, adjust, normalize, methodize, grade, support, subordinate, marshal, schematize, order, orchestrate, cast, structure, pigeonhole, mediate, sort, plot, arrange, compose, systematize, right, program, separate, shape, settle, set, place, schedule, classify, rate, scheme, harmonize, design, stratify, form, maintain, chart, class, sift, frame, score, organize, unsnarl, type, control, integrate, stabilize, rationalize

equip, develop, foster, formulate, draft, curry, make, fit, mobilize, outfit, prime, ready, dress, fashion, fabricate, construct, furnish

predetermine, premeditate

Usage examples:

• Then it was pleasant to be thrown with such a bright companion as Dorothy, who was always ready to devise some new play or to shake out a bag of pretty pieces for doll clothes.
• Those interested in extending the market for this vegetable will do well to devise special means for introducing it into families not familiar with it. - "The Cauliflower", A. A. Crozier.
• In the very hour when my mind could devise no clue to the goal of vengeance, have ye sent this fair fool for my guide? - "The Last Days of Pompeii", Edward George Bulwer-Lytton.