单词 | codicil |
释义 | codiciln. 1. a. Law. A supplement to a will, added by the testator for the purpose of explanation, alteration, or revocation of part or all of the original contents. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will > supplement to codicil?1418 ?1418–19 in F. J. Furnivall Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 40 I will þat my wyll be fulfillyd lyk als I ordeynd..and all þat es contend in this Codicill. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Boke yf Eneydos xxvii. sig. Gviv This..is my testament & my last will. my condicylle [Fr. codicille] & my willynge inreuocable & permanent. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie 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 [Fr. codicile] vnto it. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 161 He bequeathed to [them]..one hundred pounds a piece by his Will, and as much by a Codecil annexed thereunto. c1720 M. Prior Alma ii. 80 To appoint her, By codicil, a larger jointure. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby i. 2 He had in a fit of very natural exasperation, revoked the bequest in a codicil. 1862 E. E. Stuart Let. 29 Oct. in R. Stuart et al. Stuart Lett. (1961) II. 1013 My son Robert having been taken away by death, it is my will that that portion of my estate which was designed for him in my will to which this is a codicil, shall go to his children who may survive me. 1936 ‘J. Tey’ Shilling for Candles (1954) viii. 66 The letter..contained instructions for a codicil to her will. 2004 Good Housek. Oct. 110/1 If the changes are relatively minor, prepare a codicil to your existing will. b. In figurative and extended use: a supplement, an appendix. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > layout > [noun] > piece of writing at end > added as nonessential supplement supplement1523 appendix1549 codicil1566 appendant1570 appendage1651 annexure1798 1566 J. Barthlet Pedegrewe Heretiques f. 44 The superstition of the Popistes, is come to this ripenesse, that they dare presume to adde a Codicil to the same Testament. 1651 C. Cartwright Certamen Religiosum i. 103 Is it for the honour of the English Nation..to forsake her Mother Church..and to annex their Religion as a codicell to an appeal of a company of Protesters against a decree at Spira? 1784 H. Walpole Let. 27 Mar. in Academy (1882) 25 Feb. 138/3 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. 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. ix. vi. 239 Our compact is sealed; one word by way of codicil. 1878 F. A. Kemble Rec. Girlhood II. i. 33 Upon this view of her epistle, which did not appear to have struck her, M. de la Forest said, she would (instead of rewriting it) tack on to it..a sort of revocatory codicil, in the shape of a postscript. 1974 Speculum 49 665 The manuscript tradition of this charter of 1035 has preserved, as a codicil, a summary transcription of a later act. 2018 Berkhamsted & Tring Gaz. (Nexis) 15 Dec. I have to admit to an irritation with people who claim to be vegetarian while adding the codicil ‘but I do eat fish and/or chicken’. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > writing tablet > [noun] wax-bredc960 tableOE tabletc1300 writing tablea1451 writing tablet1601 codicil1640 tablette1711 pugillares1729 pugillaries1759 wax tablet1807 tabula1881 society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book book of account1444 accounts book1461 counting-book15.. accounting booka1555 account book1590 count-book1607 codicila1704 viewbook1718 bill-book1774 stock book1835 account ledger1879 society > law > legal right > [noun] > document conferring right or privilege privilegec1240 charter?a1250 patentc1387 diplomaa1658 brevet1689 charta1698 codicil1781 1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning i. vii. 56 A paire of Tables, or Codicills [L. Codicillos], wherein to register the wise..sayings of others. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 539 The Codicills were return'd with an Answer upon the same Wax where the former Letter was written. a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 93 His codicils or paper of accounts. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. 25 The codicils or patents of their office were curiously emblazoned. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1418 |
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