(v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument.
(v. t.) To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain.
(v. t.) To say; to relate; to describe.
(v. t.) To imagine; to guess.
(v. t.) To give by will; -- used of real estate; formerly, also, of chattels.
(v. i.) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
(n.) The act of giving or disposing of real estate by will; -- sometimes improperly applied to a bequest of personal estate.
(n.) A will or testament, conveying real estate; the clause of a will making a gift of real property.
(n.) Property devised, or given by will.
(n.) Device. See Device.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(3) For this purpose a test consisting of 135 picture cards was devised.
(4) A new type of artificial blood, pyridoxylated hemoglobin-polyoxyethylene conjugate (PHP) solution, (developed by PHP research group of the department of health and welfare of Japan, and produced by Ajinomoto Co., Inc. Tokyo) as an oxygen-carrying component, has been recently devised using hemoglobin obtained from hemolyzed human erythrocytes.
(5) Contrary to the intentions of the devisers of this scale, it has been found that, significantly different assessments may result when the same patient is rated by various groups (psychiatrists, psychologists, students and psychiatric nurses).
(6) Adaequate and reliable testing techniques had to be devised.
(7) An improved technique to record high-equality electrocardiographic (ECG) signals on the surface, from immersed humans during rest and exercise, in both normothermic and hypothermic exposures, has been devised.
(8) In work to determine whether X-radiation could be used to induce tumors of the colon in outbred Holtzman rats, a technique was devised so that only the descending colon could be irradiated with a collimated X-ray beam and tumorigenic exposures in the kilo-Roentgen range were delivered.
(9) A review of the literature reveals that the numerous procedures now available to repair the nose had already been devised by the middle of the nineteenth century in Germany and France as well as in England.
(10) The clinical and laboratory features are reviewed and the results of recently devised strategies aimed at characterizing the primary molecular and genetic abnormalities are presented.
(11) The Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) II classification, a measure of severity of illness in patients requiring intensive care, was devised before the rapid expansion of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) epidemic.
(12) The increase in Con A fiber-binding seems to be specific for EGF, since it was not observed in response to insulin, prostaglandin F2alpha or a higher serum concentration, which also initiate cell devision of confluent quiescent 3T3 cells.
(13) Many modern cancer drugs are of very little benefit to patients, according to a group of leading European experts, who have devised a way to score them.
(14) No wonder public discussion of this most unexpected scientific development has so far been muted and respectful, waiting for the expert community that discovered the anomaly by accident – the Opera experiment at Gran Sasso was devised to isolate different varieties of neutrino, not to test Einstein – to work out what it all means, or doesn't.
(15) An experimental murine malarial model was devised using the highly synchronous species Plasmodium vinckei petteri to test this rationale.
(16) In order to attain these objectives, a new scanning method involving Target Volume Scan for the pancreas as a routine CT scanning modality has been devised.
(17) Banks are now attempting to devise ways of avoiding the cap.
(18) The development of visual acuity was studied longitudinally in young kittens, using a modification of the forced-choice preferential looking method (FPL) devised by Teller et al.
(19) The proposed estimator (Z) was devised for pseudorandom excitation and is based on time-domain signal averaging before frequency analysis.
(20) A scoring system has been devised to rate 12 easily measured clinical and pathological parameters, and a regression analysis used to measure the contribution made by each parameter to hospital morbidity and mortality and to later mortality over a 5 year period.
Sophistry
Definition:
(n.) The art or process of reasoning; logic.
(n.) The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
Example Sentences:
(1) But too often, those who deploy the argument, are borrowing from the Bill Clinton school of sophistry: "I did not have racist relations with that religion".
(2) Whatever the mechanisms of the drug-induced carcinogenesis, it is clear that there is a toxicologic hazard, which must be assessed rationally and not by means of sophistry.
(3) It has been their policy for the last 10 years and the commitment could not have been clearer in the Queen's speech that followed the general election (even if the wording of the coalition agreement allowed for some sophistry by opponents of reform).
(4) This sort of sophistry neatly inverts the actual benefactor-beneficiary relationship: for-profit companies are attempting to save money on entry level positions by extracting unpaid labour from a population of vulnerable young people, many of whom are unaware that these arrangements are often illegal.
(5) The Union now host their affiliate team Harrisburg in the quarter finals - prompting a little bit of sophistry from US Soccer as to why the two teams aren't technically affiliated .
(6) Though this is not explicit, it will help slice through the banalities and sophistry that party and campaign spin doctors on both sides seem unable to shake off with the referendum campaign.
(7) What Wisconsin does offer is a transparent illustration of the ideological sophistry and political mendacity driving these attacks.
(8) At best, these arrangements are advantageous legal sophistry.
(9) How can they approve this through the normal processes?” The chair of the London assembly’s budget and performance committee accused Johnson of “sophistry”.
(10) The possibility of exposing the mendacious speeches, populism and sophistry of politics, economics and culture is thrilling.
(11) "For all the sophistry and rhetoric about avoiding violence, how can they reconcile that with being ok with evictions?
(12) People think we just chuck it out there, but there's a huge amount of data sophistry into how we design the campaigns."
(13) This fiasco over PIP eligibility ultimately reveals the sophistry behind the government's disability agenda.
(14) The remainers in the audience saw the sophistry, but no matter.
(15) But it’s precisely this veil of classiness, this veneer of BBC2 sophistication, that brings on the sophistry.
(16) At best this is sophistry and at worst this is misleading, because the NAO report says the Department for Work and Pensions is actively considering a delay to this too.
(17) But he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them … Whether such deeds were reprehensible, or even whether they happened, was always decided according to political predilection.” When these contradictions are rooted in history this sophistry can be neatly buried under time.