deviseとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈvaɪz/
• 韻: -aɪz
• ハイフネーション: de‧vise

動詞

devise (三人称単数 現在形 devises, 現在分詞 devising, 過去形および過去分詞形 devised)

1. (transitive) To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).

   to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing

   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     devising schemes to realize his ambitious views

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, →ISBN, page 23:

     Thus, the task of the linguist devising a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to devise a finite set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an infinite set of well-formed sentences.

   • 2019 March 21, Setboonsarg, Chayut; Johnson, Kay, “Numbers game: How Thailand's election system favors pro-army parties”, in Birsel, Robert, editor, Reuters‎^[1], Reuters, retrieved 2019-03-23:

     Thailand goes to the polls on Sunday under a new system that critics say the military government has devised to prevent the most popular political party, which has won every election since 2001, from returning to power.

2. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
   • 1725, Homer; [William Broome], transl., “Book IX”, in The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume II, London: […] Bernard Lintot, OCLC 8736646:

     I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.

4. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book VI, canto IX, stanza 30:

     For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore / They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize,

5. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.

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名詞

devise (複数形 devises)

1. The act of leaving real property in a will.
2. Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     Fines upon devises were still exacted.

3. The real property left in such a will.
4. Design, devising.
   • 2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain →ISBN, page 83

     I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]

参考

• device
• devising

アナグラム

• sieved, viséed