devisable
Americanadjective
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capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.
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Law. capable of being transferred.
adjective
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law (of property, esp realty) capable of being transferred by will
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able to be invented, contrived, or devised
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of devisable
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French: assignable by will, Old French: that which may be divided, equivalent to devis ( er ) ( see devise) + -able -able
Example Sentences
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True liberty is not to be virtually secured by any framework of rules and limitations, devisable only by statecraft.
From Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count
Would to heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy 135any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne plus ultra of machinery, devisable by man that would do it!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
Stolberg offers him the favorablest terms devisable: "Withdraw freely, with all your honors, all your properties; only withdraw!"
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind-fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
Would to Heaven that we had a sieve; that we could so much as fancy any kind of sieve, wind- fanners, or ne-plus-ultra of machinery, devisable by man, that would do it!
From Past and Present by Thomas Carlyle
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