<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>devised, devising.</li><li>to contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas: to devise a method.</li><li>Theater: to develop (a play) collaboratively with the performers: Based on the lives of women in engineering, the students devised the play themselves.</li><li>Law: to assign or transmit (property) by will.</li><li>Archaic: to imagine; suppose.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Law: the act of disposing of property, especially real property, by will.</li><li>a will or clause in a will disposing of property, especially real property.</li><li>the property so disposed of.</li></ul>