devise: Meaning and Definition of

de•vise

1. to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.
2. to assign or transmit (property) by will.
3. to imagine; suppose.

1. to form a plan; contrive.

1. the act of disposing of property, esp. real property, by will.
2. a will or clause in a will disposing of property, esp. real property.
3. the property so disposed of.