plan or invent (a complex procedure, system, or mechanism) by careful thought 策划;发明;想出(复杂的程序、系统或机制) a training programme should be devised. 应该设计出一个培训计划。 a complicated game of his own devising. 他自己想出的一个复杂的游戏。
(Law)leave (real estate) to someone by the terms of a will (律)(通过遗嘱)遗赠(不动产)
noun
(Law)a clause in a will leaving real estate to someone (律)(遗嘱中)遗赠不动产的条款
派生 devisable adjective devisee noun
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deviser noun devisor noun
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语源
Middle English: the verb from Old French deviser, from Latin divis- 'divided', from the verb dividere (this sense being reflected in the original English sense of the verb); the noun is a variant of device (in the early sense 'will, desire')