Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as devise.

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  • verb Common misspelling of devise.
  • verb Obsolete form of devise.

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Examples

  • October 9, 2008 at 10:14 am and bee shure to remooove devize saefly.

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  • Besides the Powers of our Reason and Invention have enabled us to devize

    John Adams diary 1, 18 November 1755 - 29 August 1756 1961

  • Item I give to my daughter Catherine one shilling and all the rest and residue of my ready money plate jewels and estate whatsoever and wheresoever after my debts and funeral charges are fully paid and satisfied I give devize and bequeath the same unto my dearly beloved daughter Charlott Ffeilding wife of Henry Ffeilding of

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

  • No sanitary contrivance which the mind of even the very worst plumber can devize could be as disastrous as that total neglect for long periods which gets avenged by pestilences that sweep through whole continents, like the black death and the cholera.

    The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • The voter's duty is to take care that the Government consists of men whom he can trust to devize or support institutions making for the common welfare.

    Getting Married George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Lord Evandale is called to the present campaign, both by his honour and his duty, he hath earnestly solicited me that the bonds of holy matrimony be knitted before his departure to the wars between you and him, in implement of the indenture formerly entered into for that effeck, whereuntill, as I see no raisonable objexion, so I trust that you, who have been always a good and obedient childe, will not devize any which has less than raison.

    Old Mortality, Complete Walter Scott 1801

  • Lord Evandale is called to the present campaign, both by his honour and his duty, he hath earnestly solicited me that the bonds of holy matrimony be knitted before his departure to the wars between you and him, in implement of the indenture formerly entered into for that effeck, whereuntill, as I see no raisonable objexion, so I trust that you, who have been always a good and obedient childe, will not devize any which has less than raison.

    Old Mortality, Volume 2. Walter Scott 1801

  • Item I give to my daughter Catherine one shilling and all the rest and residue of my ready money plate jewels and estate whatsoever and wheresoever after my debts and funeral charges are fully paid and satisfied I give devize and bequeath the same unto my dearly beloved daughter Charlott Ffeilding wife of Henry Ffeilding of East Stour in the County of Dorset Esqre.”

    Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

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