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Charity :: Charity (n.) Eleemosynary appointments [grants or devises] including relief of the poor or friendless, education, religious culture, and public institutions..

Abatement :: Abatement (n.) The entry of a stranger, without right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..

Whimsical :: Whimsical (a.) Odd or fantastic in appearance; quaintly devised; fantastic.

Devisable :: Devisable (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived..

Substitution :: Substitution (n.) The designation of a person in a will to take a devise or legacy, either on failure of a former devisee or legatee by incapacity or unwillingness to accept, or after him..

Pretex :: Pretex (v. t.) To frame; to devise; to disguise or excuse; hence, to pretend; to declare falsely..

Device :: Device (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice..

Machination :: Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

Construct :: Construct (v. t.) To devise; to invent; to set in order; to arrange; as, to construct a theory of ethics..

Subtle :: Subtle (superl.) Cunningly devised; crafty; treacherous; as, a subtle stratagem..

Contriver :: Contriver (n.) One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas..

Point-devise :: Point-devise (a.) Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular.

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.

Extemporiness :: Extemporiness (n.) The quality of being done or devised extempor.

Pasteurism :: Pasteurism (n.) A method of treatment, devised by Pasteur, for preventing certain diseases, as hydrophobia, by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength..

Point-devise :: Point-devise (adv.) Exactly.

Gyroscope :: Gyroscope (n.) A rotating wheel, mounted in a ring or rings, for illustrating the dynamics of rotating bodies, the composition of rotations, etc. It was devised by Professor W. R. Johnson, in 1832, by whom it was called the rotascope..

Forgery :: Forgery (n.) That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited..

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