Testator
[te'steitә,]
Definition
(n.) A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.
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Examples
- If the stamp is of an inferior price to what the testator ought to have made use of, his succession is confiscated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It appears to be all in the testator's handwriting. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Who was ever awe struck about a testator, or sang a hymn on the title to real property? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He forged wills, this blade did, if he didn't also put the supposed testators to sleep too. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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