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testator|tɛˈsteɪtə(r)|
[In sense 1, a. AF. testatour = F. -teur (13th c. in Godef. Compl.), ad. late L. testatōr-em, agent-n. from testārī to witness, make a will. In sense 2 direct from L.]
1. One who makes a will; esp. one who has died leaving a will.
[1306Rolls of Parlt. I. 220/1 La volunte de chescun testatour.] 1447Ibid. V. 129/2 Ther remayneth due to the saide Executours, for their saide Testatour,..the sum of vii or viii m. marcs. 1535tr. Littleton's Nat. Brev. 29 b, The executours..brought a wrytte of Erroure of vtlawry pronounced agaynst the testatoure in hys lyfe. 1664Protests Lords (1875) I. 30 Provision made by the testator to pay honest debts. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xxiii. 376 That all devises of lands and tenements shall not only be in writing, but signed by the testator. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Cockayne Wks. (Bohn) II. 64 A testator endows a dog or a rookery, and Europe cannot interfere with his absurdity.
†2. One who or that which testifies; a witness.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 350 Come false witnes, come true testator. 1632Lithgow Trav. x. 435 To all which, and much more haue I beene an occular Testator. 1698in Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 549, I am a perfect Testator, by report of David Evans acquittance.
Hence teˈstatorship, the position or office of a testator; ˈtestatory a., pertaining to or of the nature of evidence.
1624Bp. Andrewes Serm., Heb. xiii. 20–21 (1629) 584 Both, in His [Christ's] Pastor-ship, and in His Testator-ship. 1907Daily 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. |