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Word Meanings - DEVISAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A devising. Whitney.

Related words: (words related to DEVISAL)

  • 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.

 

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