devising
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Noun (1)
- the act that results in something coming to be“the devising of plans”“the fashioning of pots and pans”“the making of measurements”“it was already in the making”Synonyms: fashioningmakingType of productionKinds moviemaking, mapmaking
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“devising” is listed under Devise.
Origin: OF. deviser to distribute, regulate, direct, relate, F., to chat, fr. L. divisus divided, distributed, p. p. of dividere. See Divide, and cf. Device.
1. 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.
To devise curious works.— Ex. CCTV. 32.
Devising schemes to realize his ambitious views.— George Bancroft
2. To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore They are which fortunes do by vows devise.— Edmund Spenser
3. To say; to relate; to describe. obsolete Geoffrey Chaucer
4. To imagine; to guess. obsolete Edmund Spenser
5. Law To give by will; — used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
Synonyms: To bequeath; invent; discover; contrive; excogitate; imagine; plan; scheme. See Bequeath.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54