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单词 testator
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testatorn.

Brit. /tɛˈsteɪtə/, U.S. /ˈtɛˌsteɪdər/
Etymology: In sense 1, < Anglo-Norman testatour = French -teur (13th cent. in Godefroy Compl.), < late Latin testatōr-em , agent-noun < testārī to witness, make a will. In sense 2 direct < Latin.
1. One who makes a will; esp. one who has died leaving a will.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > testator
testator1447
bequeatherc1503
devisor1528
legator1638
testate1864
1306 Rolls of Parl. I. 220/1 La volunte de chescun testatour.]
1447 Rolls of Parl. V. 129/2 Ther remayneth due to the saide Executours, for their saide Testatour,..the sum of vii or viii m. marcs.
1535 tr. Natura Breuium (new ed.) 29 b The executours..brought a wrytte of Erroure of vtlawry pronounced agaynst the testatoure in hys lyfe.
1664 Protests Lords (1875) I. 30 Provision made by the testator to pay honest debts.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. xxiii. 376 That all devises of lands and tenements shall not only be in writing, but signed by the testator.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits ix. 146 A testator endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.
2. One who or that which testifies; a witness.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > a witness, testifier
witec900
witnessc950
witnessman10..
proofc1380
witnesserc1400
record1408
recorderc1425
test1528
testor1570
attestator1598
attester1598
testator1602
suffragator1606
testimoner1607
testifier1611
voucher1612
suffragant1613
testate1619
sponsor1651
testee1654
vouchee1654
adducer1681
testificator1730
circumstantiator1858
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 350 Come false witnes, come true testator.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. x. 435 To all which, and much more haue I beene an occular Testator.
1698 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 549 I am a perfect Testator, by report of David Evans acquittance.

Derivatives

teˈstatorship n. the position or office of a testator.
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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > testator > position of
testatorship1624
1624 L. Andrewes Serm., Heb. xiii. 20–21 (1629) 584 Both, in His [Christ's] Pastor-ship, and in His Testator-ship.
ˈtestatory adj. pertaining to or of the nature of evidence.
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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [adjective]
testimonialc1430
evidential1610
witnessed1746
evidentiary1809
attestative1827
adductive1873
testatory1907
1907 Daily News 23 May 6 Whether anything would be gained by giving it a judicial position instead of a testatory we must be allowed to doubt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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