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n. - A person who makes plans.

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  • The interpretation may or may not be what the deviser intended.
  • No doubt, the government and the deviser of the model would find this all too embarrasing.
  • Wisdom wishes to be acknowledged as the deviser of the wonderful attempering and qualifying of justice and mercy.
  • She might have ended up the deviser of merely fascinating stories, gizmos and thingamajigs that brought off-kilter delight.
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  • A "deviser" is someone who plans or organizes, yet a "devisor" is one who transmits property through a will. A "divisor" is the number by which another number is divided.
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