devise vs evolve

devise

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

  • To leave (property) in a will. 

noun
  • The act of leaving real property in a will. 

  • Design, devising. 

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

  • The real property left in such a will. 

evolve

verb
  • To come into being; develop. 

  • To change; transform. 

  • Of a population, to acquire or develop (a trait) in the process of biological evolution. 

  • To give off (gas, such as oxygen or carbon dioxide during a reaction). 

  • To move in regular procession through a system. 

  • Of a trait, to develop within a population via biological evolution. 

  • Of a population, to change genetic composition over successive generations through the process of evolution. 

  • To cause something to change or transform. 

How often have the words devise and evolve occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )