devisableadj.
/dɪˈvʌɪzəb(ə)l/ 1. Law. That can be devised or bequeathed, as real property: see devise v. 4.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [adjective] > left by will > capable of being
devisable1535
testamentary1629
bequeathable1655
testable1681
1292 Britton iii. xx. §7 Si..le tenement soit devisable par usage et custume del lu, sicum est de burgages.]
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 10 §1 By the common lawes..landes, tenementes and hereditamentes, be not diuisable by testamente.
1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes iii. f. 91 Whether corne growing on lande morgaged, bee deuiseable.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 322 Tenements deuisable to another for life, or for yeares.
1755 N. Magens Ess. Insurances II. 369 The Shares in the capital Stock shall be transferrable and devisable.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 405 Uses were devisable, although at that time lands were not.
1847 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 14 192 Genius and talent are not devisable possessions.
1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) iii. Comm. 422 Land held in emphyteusis was alienable, devisable, descendible by intestacy.
2. That can be devised or contrived; contrivable.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adjective] > capable of invention
devisable1649
1649 J. Sadler Rights of Kingdom 189 If there be No Records, There is scarce Devisable a Legall Traverse, or a Tryall.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 36 Exceptions or cavils devisable by curious or captious wits.
1795 A. Hughes Jemima II. 39 Every devisable method for obtaining her.
1889 E. Lynn Linton Thro' Long Night ii. ix Any folly devisable by man.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [adjective]
fainta1340
counterfeit1393
pretense1395
feinta1400
feigned1413
disguisyc1430
colourable1433
pretending1434
simulate1435
dissimuled1475
simulative1490
coloureda1500
dissimulate?a1500
simuled1526
colorate1528
dissembled1539
mock1548
devised1552
pretended?1553
artificial1564
supposed1566
counterfeited1569
supposing?1574
affecteda1586
pretensive1607
false1609
supposite1611
simulara1616
simulatory1618
simulated1622
put-ona1625
ironic1631
ironical1646
devisable1659
pretensional1659
pretenced1660
pretensory1663
vizarded1663
shammed?c1677
sham1681
faux1684
fictitious1739
ostensible1762
made-up1773
mala fide1808
assumed1813
semblative1814
fictioned1820
pretextual1837
pseudo1854
fictive1855
schlenter1881
faked1890
phoney1893
phantom1897
1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1848) II. 547 The more they will..find how false and deviseable that common saying is, which is so much relied upon.
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