noun property devised, or given by will.
2. devise ·noun device. ·see device.
3. devise ·vt to plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
4. devise ·vt to imagine; to guess.
5. devise ·vt to give by will;
used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
6. devise ·noun a will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
7. devise ·vt to say; to relate; to describe.
8. devise ·vi to form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
9. devise ·noun the act of giving or disposing of real estate by will;
sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
10. devise ·vt 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.