devise
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9.9
- noun
- /dɪˈvaɪz/
- Formal
:
disposición testamentaria
- But it is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by every possible devise.
Examples
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That's a thermonuclear devise on your back.
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If he be now returned, I shall work him to an exploit, now ripe in my devise, under the which he shall not choose but fall.
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Have you a draft of this devise?
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You could have a devise on you that you don't know about.
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The fight inevitably takes different paths and has different outcomes because it is the community and its members who build, in the sense of devise, and to some degree implement the response.
Academic text (2013) -
The will was a way the dying 14-year-old could have some say in his affairs. He had the ability to give things to those he loved personally, by specific devise.
Blog text (33) -
In his will, he included a devise that specified how his home would be distributed among his children.
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The legal team carefully reviewed the devise to ensure it met all necessary requirements.
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She was grateful for the generous devise in her grandmother's will, allowing her to inherit the family land.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Devise (noun, law) is the part of a will that gives a piece of land or a house, and it comes from the same root meaning 'divide' or 'a part given'. So a devise is literally the 'piece' of property set aside for someone in a will.