wills to indicate that each of the named beneficiaries should receive, by devise or bequest, equal shares of the estate. This is in contrast to a per stirpes...

other things. Étienne-Paschal Taché is credited with having popularized the phrase. In 1883, his son Eugène-Étienne Taché, Assistant Commissioner for Crown...

The blessing phrase "live long and prosper" (written by Theodore Sturgeon) is frequently spoken alongside it. The Vulcan "salute" was devised by Leonard...

entendres) is a figure of speech or a particular way of wording that is devised to have a double meaning, one of which is typically obvious, and the other...

Simlish is a constructed language devised by game designer Will Wright for the Sims game series developed by Electronic Arts. During the development of...

A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a...

display computer typefaces. Short pangrams in English are more difficult to devise and tend to use uncommon words and unnatural sentences. Longer pangrams...

opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it. Hitchens used this phrase specifically in the context of refuting religious belief. The dictum appears...

Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung 46, 2019, 575. Konstantin M. Langmaier, Zur Devise Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1415–1493). In: Zeitschrift des Historischen Vereins...

from an already existing word by expanding its letters into the words of a phrase. Backronyms may be invented with either serious or humorous intent, or they...

a crowdsourced English-language online dictionary for slang words and phrases. The website was founded in 1999 by Aaron Peckham. Originally, Urban Dictionary...

numbers if they are drawn. The nicknames are sometimes known by the rhyming phrase 'bingo lingo' and there are rhymes for each number from 1 to 90, some of...

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? is a Latin phrase found in the Satires (Satire VI, lines 347–348), a work of the 1st–2nd century Roman poet Juvenal. It...

the newly devised goulsse alphabet. Languages of Burkina Faso Mooré at Ethnologue (21st ed., 2018) "More, language of the Mossi tribe; phrase book". Library...

"Where no man has gone before" is a phrase made popular through its use in the title sequence of the original 1966–1969 Star Trek science fiction television...

compound noun cellar door has been widely cited as an example of a word or phrase that is beautiful purely in terms of its sound (i.e., euphony) without inherent...

Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno is a Latin phrase that means One for all, all for one. It is the unofficial motto of Switzerland. This attitude is epitomized...

A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as madam or racecar, the date "22/02/2022"...

alive. Ever deceptive and self-serving, Theo takes command of his Pack, devising ways to help them develop and control their abilities, feeding them false...

popular among fans of the genre and members of the scientific community. Phrases from it are widely recognised and often used in reference to, but outside...

During his second stint in Cleveland, based on a negotiation strategy devised by NBA agent Mark Termini, who worked with Paul and specialized in contract...

chemist each devised an ingenious mechanism for getting the can open; the economist merely said, "Assume we have a can opener"! The phrase was popularized...

Augustus' Devise. (Let us again take the middle course. Make haste slowly: that was even Emperor Augustus' motto.) The Lord Chancellor uses the phrase in W...

a pun on the title of the British patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" The phrase "Cool Britannia" was coined in 1967 as a song title by the Bonzo Dog Doo...

the lawyer writing such a document will often phrase it something like this: I bequeath, convey, and devise the rest, residue, and remainder of my property...

Gopher, Isaac, and Doc invent a phony fraternity to keep her busy and devise frat-like procedures for her to join. This interferes with her romance with...

have served". Observed on 25 April each year, Anzac Day was originally devised to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC)...

predicates and arguments is associated most with (content) verbs and noun phrases (NPs), although other syntactic categories can also be construed as predicates...

(English: 'for the public good'), usually shortened to pro bono, is a Latin phrase for professional work undertaken voluntarily and without payment. The term...

events at St. Moritz, Switzerland, in which competitors were required to devise a sculpture mounted on skis and ride it down a mountain. The event reached...