deviseとは

発音

• 韻: -aɪz

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

   • Bancroft

     devising schemes to realize his ambitious views

   • 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational Grammar, Cambridge: University Press, ISBN 0-521-34750-5, 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.

2. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
   • Alexander Pope

     I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.

4. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
   • Spenser

     For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise.

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.
   • Bancroft

     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 1453547460, 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