Crossword-Solution: DEVISE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Devise | v. t. | 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. |
| Devise | v. t. | To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. |
| Devise | v. t. | To say; to relate; to describe. |
| Devise | v. t. | To imagine; to guess. |
| Devise | v. t. | To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. |
| Devise | v. i. | To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. |
| Devise | n. | The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate. |
| Devise | n. | A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property. |
| Devise | n. | Property devised, or given by will. |
| Devise | n. | Device. See Device. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DEVISE | anagram | SIEVED |
We have 79 clues for the answer “DEVISE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| work out (something) in one's mind | 1 answer |
| up Dream | 1 answer |
| a will disposing of real property | 1 answer |
| GIVE by will | 1 answer |
| Form as a plan | 1 answer |
| Dream up, as a plan | 1 answer |
| Create, as a plan | 1 answer |
| Come up with, as a plan | 1 answer |
| ASSIGN by will | 1 answer |
| lucubrate | 2 answers |
| Make by careful planning | 3 answers |
| MAKE a will | 4 answers |
| think out | 5 answers |
| Think up | 6 answers |
| collude | 8 answers |
| excogitate | 8 answers |
| Conjure up | 9 answers |
| schematize | 9 answers |
| machinate | 10 answers |
| A GIFT OF REAL PROPERTY BY WILL | 11 answers |
| ideate | 13 answers |
| Bequeath | 13 answers |
| Connive | 14 answers |
| Legate | 14 answers |
| Cook (up) | 15 answers |
| Improvise | 17 answers |
| Conspire | 18 answers |
| schematise | 18 answers |
| Come up with __ | 18 answers |
| Legacy | 19 answers |
| bring to pass | 19 answers |
| dream up | 21 answers |
| Envisage | 22 answers |
| Cogitate | 23 answers |
| mull | 26 answers |
| Demise | 27 answers |
| Inheritance? | 27 answers |
| ad lib | 28 answers |
| CHART ___ | 30 answers |
| MAKE UP | 30 answers |
| Ad-lib | 30 answers |
| Engineer | 31 answers |
| prearrange | 31 answers |
| Intend | 33 answers |
| Blueprint | 37 answers |
| Fabricate | 39 answers |
| Formulate | 39 answers |
| Conceive | 41 answers |
| Concoct | 42 answers |
| Invent | 42 answers |
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Sentences with DEVISE (5)
But let us now, as in bad plight, devise What best may for the present serve to hide The Parts of each from other, that seem most To shame obnoxious, and unseemliest seen, Some Tree whose broad smooth Leaves together sowd, And girded on our loyns, may cover round Those middle parts, that this new commer, Shame, There sit not, and reproach us as unclean.
The Mice in Council THE MICE summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means of warning themselves of the approach of their great enemy the Cat.
There was no little cunning in this proposal, which indeed emanated not from any Isosceles—for no being so degraded would have angularity enough to appreciate, much less to devise, such a model of state-craft—but from an Irregular Circle who, instead of being destroyed in his childhood, was reserved by a foolish indulgence to bring desolation on his country and destruction on myriads of followers.
Who gave them out, whence they last came, where they began, through what agency they crookedly quivered and jerked, scores at a time, over the heads of the crowd, like a kind of lightning, no eye in the throng could have told; but, muskets were being distributed--so were cartridges, powder, and ball, bars of iron and wood, knives, axes, pikes, every weapon that distracted ingenuity could discover or devise.
How then may we devise one of those needful falsehoods of which we lately spoke--just one royal lie which may deceive the rulers, if that be possible, and at any rate the rest of the city? What sort of lie? he said.
Quotes with DEVISE (3)
Haven't I? - he thought. Haven't I thought of it since the first time I saw you? Haven't I thought of nothing else for two years? ... He sat motionless, looking at her. He heard the words he had never allowed himself to form, the words he had felt, known, yet had not faced, had hoped to destroy by never letting them be said within his own mind. Now it was as sudden and shocking as if he were saying it to her ... Since the first time I saw you ... Nothing but your body, that m…
Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?
We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1968–2022).