English-Spanish translations for devise

• concebir
  La Comisión debe concebir un sistema nuevo. The Commission must devise a new system.
  Para ello se pueden concebir dos tipos de medidas. Two types of measures can be devised for this.
  Por lo tanto habrá que concebir cambios y ajustes difíciles. Difficult changes and adjustments must therefore be devised.
• inventar
• legar
• maquinar
• tramar

Definition of devise

• To use one's intellect to plan or design (something
• To leave in a will
• To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain
• To imagine; to guess
• The act of leaving real property in a will
• The real property left in such a will

Examples

• to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing

Related words

• devil
• device
• deviate
• deviant
• Devil
• devious
• deviation
• bedevil
• devilish