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devise
c.1300, from O.Fr.
deviser
"dispose in portions, arrange, plan, contrive," from V.L.
*divisare,
freq. of L.
dividere
"to divide" (see
divide
). Modern sense is from "to arrange a division" (especially via a will), a meaning present in the O.Fr. word.
