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

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

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

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

Concoct :: Concoct (v. t.) To digest in the mind; to devise; to make up; to contrive; to plan; to plot.

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

Agitate :: Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs..

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

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

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..

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To imagine; to guess.

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

Phonotypy :: Phonotypy (n.) A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character..

Heliometer :: Heliometer (n.) An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

Devisee :: Devisee (n.) One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will..

Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels..

Project :: Project (n.) That which is projected or designed; something intended or devised; a scheme; a design; a plan.

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

Intestate :: Intestate (a.) Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate..

Devise :: Devise (n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.

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