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to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method. Theater. to develop (a play) collaboratively with the performers: Based on the lives of women in engineering, the students devised the play themselves. Law. to assign or transmit (property) by will. Archaic. to imagine; suppose. See more.
1. a. : to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent. devise a new strategy. b. archaic : conceive, imagine. c. : to plan to obtain or bring about : plot. devise one's death. 2. law : to give (real estate) by will (see will entry 2 sense 1) compare bequeath. devisable. di-ˈvī-zə-bəl. adjective.
features: Word Combinations ( verb ), Word Explorer. part of speech: transitive verb. inflections: devises, devising, devised. definition 1: to invent or make (a plan, device, or solution of a problem), esp. by a fresh application of known information; arrange; contrive. They devised a plan to outdo the opposing team.
