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Word Meanings - TESTATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

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  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • TESTAMENTAL
    Of or pertaining to a testament; testamentary. Thy testamental cup I take, And thus remember thee. J. Montgomery.
  • DEATHWARD
    Toward death.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • TESTAMENTATION
    The act or power of giving by testament, or will. Burke.
  • DEATH
    Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
  • TESTAMENTIZE
    To make a will. Fuller.
  • DEATHFULNESS
    Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
  • DEATH'S-HERB
    The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
  • DEATHBED
    The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
  • DEATHLESS
    Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
  • DEATHSMAN
    An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
  • TESTAMENT
    A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death. Note: This is otherwise called a will, and sometimes a last will and testament. A testament, to be valid, must
  • TESTAMENTARY
    1. Of or pertaining to a will, or testament; as, letters testamentary. 2. Bequeathed by will; given by testament. How many testamentary charities have been defeated by the negligence or fraud of executors! Atterbury. 3. Done, appointed
  • DEATHBLOW
    A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
  • DEATHFUL
    1. Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope. 2. Liable to undergo death; mortal. The deathless gods and deathful earth. Chapman.
  • LEAVES
    pl. of Leaf.
  • PARKLEAVES
    A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
  • BLACK DEATH
    A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

 

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