Devise vs Inaugurate - What's the difference?
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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.
To induct into office with a formal ceremony.
To dedicate ceremoniously; to initiate something in a formal manner.
* 2008 , The Economist,
Invested with office; inaugurated.
Devise is a related term of inaugurate.
As verbs the difference between devise and inaugurate
is that devise is while inaugurate is to induct into office with a formal ceremony.As an adjective inaugurate is
invested with office; inaugurated.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
* ----inaugurate
English
Verb
(inaugurat)Solar energy: the power of concentration
- Acciona, a Spanish conglomerate, is due to inaugurate a new power plant a few miles from Las Vegas.
Derived terms
* inaugural * inauguration * inaugurator * inauguratoryAdjective
(-)- (Drayton)