Middle Dutch devise, from Middle French devise, from Old French devise. The financial senses were borrowed from German Devise, from French devise. IPA(key):...
ponder, meditate (upon); intend to plan, contrive, devise (by extension) to meditate, study, exercise oneself in, practise or rehearse something Conjugation...
Guess how old I am. (transitive) to invent, to make up, to come up with, to devise (e.g. a story, a claim, etc.) Synonyms: kigondol, kitervel, kieszel, kirukkol...
yourself to buy that? (colloquial) to make things up; to invent, forge, devise falsely Synonym: pataka Wala ko nagbuotbuot. ― I am not making things up...
shed; to rid oneself of. (figuratively, rare) To distort or contort; to make unrecognisable. (figuratively, rare) To plot or plan; to devise a strategy...
insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devised this slander; I'll be hanged else. swamped busihead busily business busy...
indulging in any speculation whatsoever on such matters (with accusative) to devise skillfully 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 8.27: ὁ Τελλίης οὗτος...
reach the Miami country passed through that of the Iroquois, the French devised a plan, which, if successful, would soon have ridden them of the English...
Love comes with a laugh and a song, and sometimes for nothing but harm. to devise, to work out, to contrive (archaic, with shame) to be ashamed 1853, David...
to adopt Synonyms: assumo, induco, adhibeo, suscipio, sumo, accipio to devise or conceive 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.485–486: cōnscia mēns ut cuique sua est...