Usually means: Created or planned with intention.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. devised: Merriam-Webster
  2. devised: Collins English Dictionary
  3. devised: Vocabulary.com
  4. Devised, devised: Wordnik
  5. devised: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. devised: Wiktionary
  7. devised: Dictionary.com
  8. devised: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Devised: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Devised: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. devised: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. devised: FreeDictionary.org
  13. devised: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. devised: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. devised: Legal dictionary
  3. devised: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devised: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (devise)

verb:  (transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).
verb:  (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
verb:  (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
noun:  The act of leaving real property in a will.
noun:  Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
noun:  The real property left in such a will.
noun:  Design, devising.
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