Usually means: Plan or invent by thought.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. devise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. devise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. devise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. devise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. devise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Devise, devise: Wordnik
  7. devise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. devise: Wiktionary
  9. devise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. devise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. devise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. devise: Dictionary.com
  13. devise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. devise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Devise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Devise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. devise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. devise: Rhymezone
  19. devise, devise (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. devise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. devise: Free Dictionary
  22. devise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. devise: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. devise: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. devise: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. devise: Finance-Glossary.com
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. devise: Legal dictionary
  10. devise: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. devise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. DEVISE, DEVISE, DEVISE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. devise: Genealogy Glossary
  4. DEVISE: Acronym Finder

(Note: See devisable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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