| 单词 | testator |
| 释义 | testator (once / 6825 pages) n When you make your last will and testament, you are the testator, and if the will is written and witnessed according to the law of the land, your estate will be divided in the way you, the testator, requested. The noun testator comes from the Latin verb testari, meaning “make a will,” “be witness,” or “declare.” Perhaps your aunt, as testator of her will, indicated that she wanted you to inherit her collection of garden statuettes to keep her daughter from “smashing them to bits and heaving them in the dump.” WORD FAMILYtestator: testators USAGE EXAMPLESThe willingness of some courts to set aside wills of gay testators sometimes led partners to settle for a fraction of their inheritance. Salon(Jul 02, 2015) The judge said the testator had signed using a light blue ink pen, while the witnesses used dark blue ink. BBC(Aug 06, 2013) Other convents are mentioned once only and in some cases a testator leaves legacies to nuns by name, without mentioning where they are professed. Power, Eileen, Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275...(2012) n a person who makes a will Syn|Hypo|Hyper testate devisor someone who devises real property in a will testatrixa female testator individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul a human being |
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