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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-171/
- Published: 2020-07-15T18:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-07-15T06:04:43.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

The word for today is…

devise (verb) – 1\. To form, plan, or arrange in the mind; design or contrive.  
2\. (Law) To transmit or give (real property) by will.  
3\. (Archaic) To suppose; imagine.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/devise?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : There’s something inventive about devise, a word that stems from Latin dividere, meaning “to divide.” By the time devise began being used in early Middle English, its Anglo-French forebear deviser had accumulated an array of senses, including “divide,” “distribute,” “arrange,” “array,” “digest,” “order,” “plan,” “invent,” “contrive,” and “assign by will.”

English adopted most of these and added some new senses over the course of time, such as “imagine,” “guess,” “pretend,” and “describe.” In modern use, we’ve disposed of a lot of the old meanings, but we have kept the one that applies to wills; devise has traditionally referred to the transfer of real property (land), and bequeath to personal property. These days, this devise is most often recognized as applying generally to all the property in a person’s estate.

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