devisable

[Eng. dev is (e); -able.] 1. Ord. Lang.: That may or can be devised, contrived, or imagined. "Cavils devisable by curious and captious wits against it."-Barrow: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 2. 2. Law : Capable of being devised or bequeathed by will. "It seems sufficiently clear that, before the Conquest, lands were devisable by will." - Black stone : Comment., bk. ii., ch. 20. dě-viş-al, s. [Eng. dev is(e); al.] The act or mode of devising or inventing; the state of being devised. IMG:content-2356.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To invent, to contrive, to excogitate, to strike out or compose by thought and consideration; to scheme, to plot. "It was nece ary to devise something. Something was devised , something of which the effects are felt to this day in every part of the globe."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xix. *2. To think of, determine, or settle on; to plan, to purpose. "Even in the month which he had devised of his own heart."-1 Kings xii. 33. *3. To imagine, to think of. "Herte of mon dyadlich ne may hit thencke, ne mouth deuisi." Ayenbite , p. 144. *4. To direct, to describe. 1374 dě-vi şed, pa. par. or a. [DEVISE, v.] děv-i-şēe, s. [Eng. dev is (e); -ee.] One to whom anything is devised by will. "The devisee of the use could in Chancery compel its execution."- Black stone : Comment ., bk. ii., ch. 20. *dě-vise-měnt, *de-vyse-ment, s. [O. Fr. devise ment; Ital. divis i a men to .] A description. "I knew hit by his deuysement in the Apocalyppez." E. Eng. Allit . Poems ; Pearl , 1,018. dě-viş-er, de-vi-sor, *de-vy-sour, *de-vi-zor, *di-vi-ser, s . [Eng. dev is (e); -er.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. One who devises, plans, or contrives; a con triver. "A law should by the selfsame maker and deviser of the same be again revoked."- North : Plutarch , p. 148. *2. One who feigns or pretends; a deceiver, an inventor. "I say, they are daily mocked into error by devisers."Browne. II. Law (of the form devisor ): One who devises or bequeaths anything by will. "The burning, tearing, or destroying thereof by the devisor."- Black stone : Comment ., bk. ii., ch. 20. dě-viş-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [DEVISE, 2.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of contriving, planning, or inventing anything. 2. Law : The act of bequeathing landed property by will. dě-viş-õr, s. [DEVISER.] *děv'-1-ta-ble, a . [Lat. devitabilis , from devito = to avoid: de -away, from, and vito =to avoid.] That may or can be avoided or escaped; avoidable.