Concocted vs Devised - What's the difference?
concocted | devised |
(concoct)
invented, made up
to prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
to contrive something using skill or ingenuity
(devise)
To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
* Bancroft
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To leave (property) in a will.
(archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
* Alexander Pope
(archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
The act of leaving real property in a will.
Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
* Bancroft
The real property left in such a will.
As verbs the difference between concocted and devised
is that concocted is (concoct) while devised is (devise).As an adjective concocted
is invented, made up.concocted
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(head)Adjective
(-)concoct
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(en verb)Derived terms
* concocter * concoctor * concoctivedevised
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(head)devise
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(wikipedia devise)Verb
(devis)- to devise''' an argument; to '''devise a machine, or a new system of writing
- devising schemes to realize his ambitious views
- Thus, the task of the linguist devising' a grammar which models the linguistic competence of the fluent native speaker is to '''devise a ''finite'' set of rules which are capable of specifying how to form, interpret, and pronounce an ''infinite set of well-formed sentences.
- I thought, devised , and Pallas heard my prayer.
- For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise .
- (Spenser)
Noun
(en noun)- Fines upon devises were still exacted.