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

Voltaic :: Voltaic (a.) Of or pertaining to Alessandro Volta, who first devised apparatus for developing electric currents by chemical action, and established this branch of electric science; discovered by Volta; as, voltaic electricity..

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

Plan :: Plan (v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country..

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

Imagine :: Imagine (v. i.) To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.

Devised :: Devised (imp. & p. p.) of Devis.

Condition :: Condition (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend..

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

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

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

Fudge :: Fudge (v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

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

Abator :: Abator (n.) A person who, without right, enters into a freehold on 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..

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..

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

Residue :: Residue (n.) That part of a testeator's estate wwhich is not disposed of in his will by particular and special legacies and devises, and which remains after payment of debts and legacies..

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

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

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