testamentation
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
testamentation (uncountable)
- The act or power of giving by testament, or will.
- 1760-1765, Edmund Burke, Tracts relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland
- By this law the right of testamentation was taken away , which the inferior tenures had always enjoyed ; and all tenures from the 27th Hen. VIII.
- 1760-1765, Edmund Burke, Tracts relative to the Laws against Popery in Ireland
References edit
- “testamentation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.