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INDEFINITE FAILURE OF ISSUE, executory devise(law)

devise (oh)



[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French; Origin: deviser, from Latin divisus, past participle of dividere 'to divide']
to plan or invent a new way of doing something
::She devised a method for quicker communications between offices.