devise

1. (transitive) To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).Examples: "to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing"; "Therefore to make complaynt Of such mysadvysed Parsons and dysgysed, Thys boke we have devysed, […]"; "His fiery eies are fixt vpon the earth. As if he now deuiſ’d some Stratageme: Or meant to pierce Auernus darkſome vauts. To pull the triple headed dog from hell."Synonyms: laytransitive

2. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.transitive

3. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.Examples: "I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer."archaicintransitive

4. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.Examples: "For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore / They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize,"archaictransitive

5. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.Examples: "I do protest I neuer iniur’d thee, But lou’d thee better then thou can’st deuise: Till thou shalt know the reason of my loue."obsolete