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Logarithm :: Logarithm (n.) One of a class of auxiliary numbers, devised by John Napier, of Merchiston, Scotland (1550-1617), to abridge arithmetical calculations, by the use of addition and subtraction in place of multiplication and division..

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

Testable :: Testable (a.) Capable of being devised, or given by will..

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

Prepense :: Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense..

Self-devised :: Self-devised (a.) Devised by one's self.

Pageant :: Pageant (n.) An elaborate exhibition devised for the entertainmeut of a distinguished personage, or of the public; a show, spectacle, or display..

Devisor :: Devisor (n.) One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee..

Abator :: Abator (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee..

Devise :: Devise (n.) Device. See Device.

Plot :: Plot (v. t.) To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.

Trust :: Trust (n.) An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust..

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..

Devise :: Devise (v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

Able :: Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property..

Consult :: Consult (v. t.) To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.

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

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument..

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