DEVISE Copy link • DEVISEexcogitare: cogitatione assequi: invenire (think out; make out by thinking, etc.): fingere: comminisci (feign, imagine; of something bad; fingere causas, Ter.: comminisci dolum, mendacium). (The words are found in this connection and order.) fabricari et comminisci (Plaut.); reperire et comminisci (Plaut.): coquere: concoquere (hatch; concoct plots, etc., consilia clandestina; bellum, etc.): machinari (to form some crafty device): ementiri (to devise something false; aliquid in aliquem). To devise crafty plans, etc., dolos nectere, procudere (comedy): to devise a new way of doing anything, novam alicujus rei faciendae rationem excogitare: to devise anything for a purpose, excogitare rem ad aliquid: to devise the means of making anybody unpopular, quaerere invidiam in aliquem: to devise plots against anybody, insidias comparare, parare alicui (Cic.), moliri (Verg.); against anybody’s life, insidias facere or ponere vitae alicujus (Cic.). I am thinking what means I can devise of, etc., id mecum sic agito et comparo, quo pacto, etc., with subjunctive (e.g., magnam molem minuam, Att., ap. Non.). Bequeath by will; Vid: BEQUEATH.