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Definition of "devisor" []

  • Law One that makes a devise. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "devisor" in a sentence
  • "John R. Mott, honored by academic and religious bodies for his services in planning and extending the active Christian work of university students; devisor of national and international agencies for this work, particularly the World's"
  • "The device and its devisor were doomed by physics to fail."
  • "A small deal on paper, yet Russia, the land of Periodic Table devisor and publisher Dmitri Mendeleev, has a wholesale drug market estimated by Unichem to be worth more than £3 billion $5.2 billion--a market that is expected to grow at low double-digit rates for the foreseeable future."
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