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Webster 1828 Edition

Devising

DEVISING

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ppr.

1.

Contriving; inventing; forming a scheme or plan.

2.

Giving by will; bequeathing.

Definition 2025

devising

devising

English

Noun

devising ‎(countable and uncountable, plural devisings)

the act of creating a plan or some object, especially a will
- A. R. Ammons
  I take some kind of comfort in the inexhaustibility of the devisings of nature, that it can keep coming up with new things.

Synonyms

fashioning, making

Verb

devising

present participle of devise