Word Meanings - DEVISAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A devising. Whitney.
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- DEVISABLE
1. Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. 2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will. - DEVISAL
A devising. Whitney. - DEVISER
One who devises. - DEVISE
To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels. Syn. -- To bequeath; invent; discover; contrive; excogitate; imagine; plan; scheme. See Bequeath. (more info) chat, fr. L. divisus divided, distributed, p. p. of dividere. See - DEVISEE
One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will. - DEVISOR
One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee. - WHITNEYITE
an arsenide of copper from Lake Superior. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - SELF-DEVISED
Devised by one's self.