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codicil|ˈkɒdɪsɪl|
Also 5 (condicylle), 6–7 codicill, 7 codecil, 8 codicel.
[ad. L. cōdicill-us (chiefly in pl.), dim. of cōdex codex.]
1. Law. A supplement to a will, added by the testator for the purpose of explanation, alteration, or revocation of the original contents.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxvii. (1890) 100 This is my testament and my last will, my condicylle and my willynge inreuocable and permanent. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. cxcii. 1195 Hee meant not to deface the remembrance of the things which he had written afore..in the testament or last Will of Jacob: but to make as it were a Codicill vnto it. a1661Fuller Worthies i. 161 He bequeathed to [them]..one hundred pounds a piece by his Will, and as much by a Codecil annexed thereunto. c1720Prior Alma ii. 80 To appoint her, By codicil, a larger jointure. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. i, He had, in a fit of very natural exasperation, revoked the bequest in a codicil.
b. transf. and fig. Supplement, appendix.
1784H. Walpole Let. to De Soyres 27 Mar. in Acad. 25 Feb. 1882, We have at present so bitter a codicil to a most severe Winter, that Berkeley Square was as much covered with Snow this morning as It was two months ago. 1789― Remin. ix. 67, I have done with royal personages. Shall I add a codicil on some remarkable characters that I remember? 1835Lytton Rienzi ix. vi. 398 Our compact is sealed; one word by way of codicil.
†2. Occas. in other senses of L. codicilli: A writing-tablet, a letter or note written thereon; an account-book (L. codex); a diploma or letters patent. Obs.
1640G. Watts tr. Bacon's Adv. Learn. 56 A paire of Tables, or Codicills, wherein to register the wise..sayings of others. 1699Bentley Phal. xx. 539 The Codicills were return'd with an Answer upon the same Wax where the former Letter was written. a1704T. Brown Praise of Poverty Wks. 1730 I. 93 His codicils or paper of accounts. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. 25 The codicils or patents of their office were curiously emblazoned. |