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Devise vs Legate - What's the difference?

devise | legate |

As a verb devise

is .

As a noun legate is

morass, bog, puddle, pool.

devise

English

(wikipedia devise)

Verb

(devis)
  • To use one's intellect to plan or design (something).
    • to devise''' an argument; to '''devise a machine, or a new system of writing
  • * Bancroft
    • 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.
  • To leave (property) in a will.
  • (archaic) To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • I thought, devised , and Pallas heard my prayer.
  • (archaic) To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.
  • * Spenser
    • For wisdom is most riches; fools therefore / They are which fortunes do by vows devise .
  • (obsolete) To imagine; to guess.
    • (Spenser)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of leaving real property in a will.
  • Such a will, or a clause in such a will.
  • * Bancroft
    • Fines upon devises were still exacted.
  • The real property left in such a will.

    • See also

    * device * devising

    Anagrams

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    legate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A deputy representing the Pope, specifically a papal ambassador sent on special ecclesiastical missions.
  • An ambassador or messenger.
  • * 1965 , (John Fowles), :
    • The dark figure on the raised white terrace; legate of the sun facing the sun; the most ancient royal power.
  • The deputy of a provincial governor or general in ancient Rome.

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