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† nuncupatory, a. Obs.
[Cf. prec. and -ory. So Sp. and Pg. nuncupatorio, obs. F. -atoire.]
1. Nuncupative, oral, verbal.
a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 463 Lest they should here cavill at the word Testament,..to make it as well nuncupatory and unwritten, as written. 1638Featly Strict. Lyndom. ii. 121 They refuse the triall, pretending I know not what nuncupatory will by word of mouth. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 485 By his nuncupatory Will, which he spake on the 14. day of the same month. 1704Swift T. Tub ii. Wks. 1751 I. 55 You are to be informed, that of Wills duo sunt genera, Nuncupatory and Scriptory.
2. Dedicatory.
1654Jer. Taylor Real Pres. 76 As the Archbishop of Cæsarea..hath enumerated them in his nuncupatory Epistle to Pope Sixtus Quintus. 1679Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) To Rdr., The many Nuncupatory Epistles to be seen in the fronts of so many learned Volumes. |