Devise vs Endowment - What's the difference?
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To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
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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.
Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
* 1791 , , Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791):
* 1958 , , Speech to the United Parents Association:
* 1980 , Ray Broadus Browne, Rituals and ceremonies in popular culture , page 230:
* 1985 , , Interview on The Open Mind (11 May 1985):
* 2006 , Natalie R. Collins, Wives and Sisters , page 54:
Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
* 1884 , , in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland :
* 1932 , , after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Devise is a related term of endowment.
As a verb devise
is .As a noun endowment is
something with which a person or thing is endowed.devise
English
(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 .
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Noun
(en noun)- Fines upon devises were still exacted.
See also
* device * devisingAnagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments .
- We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments .
- the woman with larger-than-usual breasts will be initially perceived only as a sex object if she doesn't take steps to disguise her endowment .
- What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment .
- Tami also had huge breasts, and every teenage boy wanted to touch them. Tami, knowing she was not beautiful, used her endowment to great advantage.
- Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all "monopolizing and aristocratic Arts" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling.
- I seem to see a great university, great in endowment , in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness.
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