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devise
English
Etymology
From Middle English devisen, devysen, from Old French deviser, from Vulgar Latin devis?, from Latin d?vis?, frequentative of d?vid?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??va?z/
- Rhymes: -a?z
- Hyphenation: de?vise
Verb
devise (third-person singular simple present devises, present participle devising, simple past and past participle devised)
- (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
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
- (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
- (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
- (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
- (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
Translations
Noun
devise (plural devises)
- The act of leaving real property in a will.
- Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- Fines upon devises were still exacted.
- 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
- The real property left in such a will.
- Design, devising.
- 2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain ?ISBN, 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, […]
- 2010, Carl Anderson, Fragments of a Scattered Brain ?ISBN, page 83
See also
- device
- devising
Anagrams
- sieved, viséed
Danish
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -i?s?
Noun
devise c (singular definite devisen, plural indefinite deviser)
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Declension
Further reading
- “devise” in Den Danske Ordbog
French
Etymology
From deviser. The financial sense is a semantic loan from German Devise.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?.viz/
Noun
devise f (plural devises)
- (heraldry) motto
- (finance) assets in foreign currency
- (finance, by extension) currency
Verb
devise
- inflection of deviser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “devise” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- dévies, évides, évidés, vidées
Spanish
Verb
devise
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of devisar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of devisar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of devisar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of devisar.
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evolve
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ?volv? (“unroll, unfold”), from ?- (“out of”) (short form of ex) + volv? (“roll”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /??v?lv/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??v?lv/
- Hyphenation: e?volve
Verb
evolve (third-person singular simple present evolves, present participle evolving, simple past and past participle evolved)
- To move in regular procession through a system.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- The animal soul sooner expands and evolves it self to its full orb and extent than the humane Soul
- 1840, William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences
- The principles which art involves, science alone evolves.
- 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion
- Not by any power evolved from man's own resources, but by a power which descended from above.
- 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature
- (intransitive) To change; transform.
- To come into being; develop.
- 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime
- You will remove the pig, place it in the car, and drive it to my house in Wiltshire. That is the plan I have evolved.
- 1939, P. G. Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime
- (biology) Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 502:
- There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
- 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species, p. 502:
- (chemistry) To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction).
- (transitive) To cause something to change or transform.
Related terms
Translations
Italian
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?lve
Verb
evolve
- third-person singular present indicative of evolvere
Latin
Etymology
- (Classical) IPA(key): /e??u?ol.u?e/, [e??u????u??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e?vol.ve/, [??v?lv?]
Verb
?volve
- second-person singular present active imperative of ?volv?
Portuguese
Verb
evolve
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present indicative of evolver
- second-person singular (tu, sometimes used with você) affirmative imperative of evolver
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