different between devise vs inheritance

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)

1. (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
2. (transitive) To leave (property) in a will.
3. (intransitive, archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
4. (transitive, archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
5. (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)

Translations

Noun

devise (plural devises)

1. The act of leaving real property in a will.
2. 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.

3. The real property left in such a will.
4. 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, […]

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)

1. (heraldry) motto
2. (finance) assets in foreign currency
3. (finance, by extension) currency

Verb

devise

1. inflection of deviser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. 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

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of devisar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of devisar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of devisar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of devisar.

English

Alternative forms

• enheritance (obsolete)
• enheritaunce (obsolete)
• inheritaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

Recorded since 1473, inherit +? -ance. More at inherit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?h???t?ns/

Noun

inheritance (countable and uncountable, plural inheritances)

1. The passing of title to an estate upon death.
2. (countable) That which a person is entitled to inherit, by law or testament.
3. (uncountable, especially linguistics, biology) The act or mechanism of inheriting; the state of having inherited

   The Indo-European languages share various similarities as a result of their inheritance from a common ancestor.

4. (biology, genetic algorithms) The biological attributes passed hereditarily from ancestors to their offspring.
5. (programming, object-oriented programming) The mechanism whereby parts of a superclass are available to instances of its subclass.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• inheritance law
• preheritance

Related terms

• inherit
• inheritable
• inheritor

Translations

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “inheritance”, in Online Etymology Dictionary