devise

To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something).

Near-synonyms: lay, set, design, plan, create

to devise an argument; to devise a machine, or a new system of writing

To leave (property) in a will.

To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider.

I thought, devised, and Pallas heard my prayer.

To plan or scheme for; to plot to obtain.

For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore / They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize,

To imagine; to guess.

I do protest I neuer iniur’d thee, But lou’d thee better then thou can’st deuise: Till thou shalt know the reason of my loue.

The act of leaving real property in a will.

Such a will, or a clause in such a will.

Fines upon devises were still exacted.

The real property left in such a will.

Design, devising.

I don't know how I got to be so sour on life, but I'm constantly in solitary confinement of my own devise, […]