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Date: 1200-1300
Language: Old French
Origin: deviser, from Latin divisus, past participle of dividere 'to divide'

devise

 verb
     
de‧vise [transitive]
to plan or invent a new way of doing something:
She devised a method for quicker communications between offices.
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