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Denize vs Devize - What's the difference?

denize | devize |

As verbs the difference between denize and devize

is that denize is (obsolete|transitive) to make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize while devize is .

denize

English

Verb

(deniz)
  • (obsolete) To make a denizen; to confer the rights of citizenship upon; to naturalize.
  • * Strype
    • There was a private act made for denizing the children of Richard Hill.
    (Webster 1913) ----

    devize

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • * 1595 , (Edmund Spenser), Sonnet LXXV:
    • Not so, quod I, let baser things devize