devisable

[ dih-vahy-zuh-buhl ]

adjective

1. capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.
2. Law. capable of being transferred.

devisable

/ dɪˈvaɪzəbəl /

adjective

1. law (of property, esp realty) capable of being transferred by will
2. able to be invented, contrived, or devised

Other Words From

• unde·visa·ble adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of devisable¹

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French: assignable by will, Old French: that which may be divided, equivalent to devis ( er ) ( devise ) + -able -able

Example Sentences

After putting the case as strongly as possible against serfs, after treating them as mere chattels to be given and sold, he adds, 'But as bondmen are annexed to the freehold of the lord, they are not devisable by testament, and therefore Holy Church can take no cognisance of them in Court Christian, although devised in testament.'

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What seems clear, at all events, is that there is no devisable means for keeping the enterprise in touch with American sympathy, and I sadly note therefore what you tell me of the inevitable and not distant end.

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Women—who, by the way, do all these embroideries—have to content themselves with the simplest patterns devisable—a mere thin line of blue stitches; but they give to the men a more elaborate ornament.

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More, he even proceeded to blows and other practical brutality of a sort only devisable by a mean and ugly nature.

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With the large and rapidly increasing number of railway tourists coming to the Park every year, each intent upon making the round and getting away in the minimum of time, there is probably no better plan devisable than the present one of shooting them in and out, and from camp to camp, in large busses.

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