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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 121 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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DEVICE , a See also:

SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)

scheme, See also:

plan, See also:

SIMPLE

simple See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical contrivance; also a See also:

PATTERN

pattern or See also:

DESIGN (Fr. desiin, drawing; Lat. designare, to mark out)

design, particularly an heraldic design or See also:

EMBLEM (Gr. Eµ3Xysa, something put in or inserted, from EµfiiXAew, to throw in)

emblem, often combined with a See also:

MOTTO (an Italian word, from Late Lat. muttum, a low sound, a mutter or murmur, cf. mutere, to mutter; the Latin word also gives Fr. mot, word)

motto or See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend. " Device " and its doublet " devise " come from the two Old See also:

French forms devis and devise of the Latin divisa, things divided, from dividere, to See also:

SEPARATE

separate, used in the sense of to arrange, set out, apportion. Devise," as a substantive, is now only used as a legal See also:

TERM

term for a disposition. of See also:

PROPERTY

property by will, by a See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

convention restricted to a disposition of real property, the term " See also:

BEQUEST (from 0. Eng. becwethan, to declare or express in words; cf. " quoth ")

bequest " being used of personalty (see WILL). This use is directly due to the See also:

MEDIEVAL

Medieval Latin meaning of dividere = testamento disponere. In its verbal See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form, " devise " is used not only in the legal sense, but also in the sense of to plan, arrange, scheme.

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