testamentn.

/ˈtɛstəmənt/

Forms: Also Middle English testement, Middle English–1500s testment.

Etymology: < Latin testāmentum a will; also, in early Christian Latin, used to render Greek διαθήκη covenant (see II.), < testārī to be a witness, attest, make a will, etc.: see -ment suffix. With the form teste-, testment, compare Old French testement, beside the more usual testament.

I. In original sense of Latin testāmentum.This is apparently later in English than branch II.

a. Law. A formal declaration, usually in writing, of a person's wishes as to the disposal of his property after his death; a will. Formerly, properly applied to a disposition of personal as distinct from real property (cf. sense 1c). Now rare (chiefly in phrase last will and testament).

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will

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1306 Rolls of Parl. I. 220/1 Les executors de tieux testaments.]

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 20 Þre þousand marke he gaf with testament fulle right.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 78 I wole, ar I Wende write my Testament.

a1400 Cursor M. 28322 Ic seketur made of testament, Ne folud noght..Þe testament for to fulfill.

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 36 I..calle vpon hym to do his part in alle thinges longyng to my testement and wille.

1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 549/2 Ayenst the Testament and the last Wille of your seid noble Progenitour.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes i. f. 3 A testament properly vnderstoode, is one kinde of last will, euen that wherein Executor is named.

1669 Will of William Prynne in S. Gardiner Documents Proc. against W. Prynne (1877) 99 Whom I make sole executors of this my last will and testament, revoking all former wills.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. i. 12 The right of disposing one's property, or a part of it, by testament.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. vii. 81 The ecclesiastical tribunals..took the execution of testaments into their hands, on account of the legacies to pious uses, which testators were advised to bequeath.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Ulpian Rules xx, in tr. Gaius Institutes 400 A testament is the testification of our will, in the form prescribed by law, made solemnly, on purpose that it may be effectual after our death.

b. transferred and figurative. (Cf. legacy n.)

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?a1400 Morte Arth. 668 Take here my testament of tresoure fulle huge, As I trayste appone the, be traye thowe me never!

?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ddiii The masse is the testament, the which our lorde made before his deth and passyon.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vi. 27 And so espous'd to death, with blood he seal'd A Testament of Noble-ending-loue.

1667 Bp. J. Taylor 2nd Pt. Dissuasive from Popery i. iii. 110 The Gospels are Christ's Testament; and the Epistles are the Codicils annex'd.

1833 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. ii. xix. 152 The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs..professes to contain prophecies and exhortations delivered by the sons of Jacob shortly before their death.

†c. transferred. Testamentary estate; personal as distinct from real property. Obsolete.

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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > personal or movable property

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taonga1863

marbles1864

1424 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 56 I..declare my last will.., als well of my testament as of my land þat standez in feffez handes.

2. Scots Law. The writing by which a person nominates an executor to administer his personal or movable estate after his decease. This writing is styled, in the decree of the Court granting confirmation (i.e. probate), a testament-testamentar n. (also testament-testamentary) and the executor is an executor-nominate. When no executor has been nominated, an executor dative is appointed by the Court, and the decree appointing him is styled a testament dative (see dative adj. and n. Compounds 1).

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will > writing nominating executor

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will > writing nominating executor > confirmed by court

testament-testamentar1666

1526 Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) II. 306/2 Quhar ony sic persouns deis w^tin age þat may no^t mak þar testamentis.

1564 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1790) 6 To the collectoris and ressaveris of the quotts, for confirmation of the testaments of the personis decessand within oure realm.

1666 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 67 If there be no Nomination or Testament made by the Defunct, or if the Testament Testamentar shall not be desired to be confirmed.

1666 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 69 Of all testaments, both great and small, which shall be confirmed, as well of Testaments dative, as others.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xxx. §33. 170 The Nomination of Executors, is properly called a Testament.

1768–73 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iii. ix. §7 Though nuncupative testaments are not effectual..to support the nomination of executors, yet nuncupative or verbal legacies are valid to the extent of L. 100 Scots.

1768–73 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iii. ix. §27 Where an executor named by the deceased is authorised by the Judge, it is called the confirmation of a testament-testamentary; and when the Judge confers the office of executor upon a person of his own nomination, it is styled the confirmation of a testament-dative.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl.

3. erroneous. = testimony n.; witness.

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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [noun] > evidence given, testimony

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constat1623

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 10 The pape conuertit sanct Tiburce, [and] sanct valere be his testament.

c1533 Disc. Antechrist in J. Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. App. xlv. 125 And when he shal end his testament the beast shal come from the bottomles pit..and shal slay them.

1904 in Daily Chron. 21 Oct. 5/7 There is first-hand testament to my statements.

II. In Christian Latin use of testāmentum.Originally a misuse of the word, arising from the fact that Greek διαθήκη, ‘disposition, arrangement’, was applied both to a covenant (pactum, fœdus) between parties, and to a testament or will (testamentum). Probably largely due to the use of διαθήκη (in the sense ‘covenant’) in the account of the Last Supper immediately before Christ's death, and its consequent association with the notion of a last will or testament. See also historical note s.v. covenant n. 7.

4. Scripture. A covenant between God and man: = covenant n. 7. Obsolete or archaic.

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society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [noun]

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New Testamentc1384

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promise?a1425

the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement > involving God, etc.

testamentc1315

c1315 Shoreham i. 541 Þys hys þe chalis of my blode Of testament newe.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxxxi. 12 If þi sunnys hafe kepid my testament.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Baruch ii. 35 And Y shal sette to them an other testament euere durende.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Acts vii. 8 He ȝaf to him the testament of circumcisioun.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xi. 25 This cuppe is the newe testament in my blood.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12886 Þe ald testament hir-wit nu slakes, And sua þe neu begining takes.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12718 Quen drightin gan to sprad his grace..þe testament bigan he neu.

c1430 J. Lydgate Letabundus 248 in Minor Poems In Reioysshyng of Crystes glad comynge; Two testamentys that day wer maad bothe Oon.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xliv. 216 His elect mother and arke of testament, Of holy chyrche the blessed lumynary.

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. iii. 6 Able ministers of the New Testament [Gk. διακόνους καινῆς διαθήκης: Wyclif, able mynistris of the newe testament, 1881 R.V. ministers of a new covenant] .

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. iii. 14 In the reading of the old testament [R.V. at the reading of the old covenant] .

5. Hence, through the application of παλαιὰ and καινὴ διαθήκη, in the Itala and Vulgate vetus and novum testamentum, to the Mosaic and Christian ‘covenants’ or ‘dispensations’ (cf. 2 Cor. iii. 6, 14 cited in 4), the term passed in early Christian Latin (and thence in the languages of the West) to the books or records of the old and new covenants.This transition of sense took place many centuries before the adoption of the word in English, where the name was simply taken over from Latin or French in this transferred use.

a. Each of the two main divisions of the Sacred Scriptures or Bible, the Old and the New Testament, consisting of the books of the old or Mosaic and the new or Christian covenant or dispensation respectively.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun]

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Septuagint1566

LXX1604

OT1845

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > [noun]

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Old and the New Testamenta1300

testament1568

the Christian volume1786

a1300 Cursor Mundi 120 I sal yow schew wit myn entent Brefli of aiþere testament.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Prol. Þe lare of þe ald testament & of þe new.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 293 In þe olde testament me redeþ... In þe newe testament.

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) Introd. 3 As the old testament beryth witnesse.

1532 T. Elyot Let. in Bk. named Gouernour (1880) I. Introd. p. lxxix Thei..doo peruse euery daye one chapitre of the New Testament.

c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 235 A Large window full of fine paintings—the history of the testaments.

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 162. ¶4 In the Old Testament we find several Passages more elevated and sublime than any in Homer.

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. ii. 4 The coachman..could..have taken his oath on the two Testaments.

b. The New Testament as distinct from the Old; a copy of the New Testament; a volume containing this. Common in Greek Testament.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > [noun]

gospel-bookc1000

Old and the New Testamenta1300

testament1568

the Christian volume1786

1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 148 So quhene, the psalme and testament to reid W^tin this land was nevir hard nor sene.

1831 R. Shennan Tales, Songs, & Misc. Poems 53 (E.D.D.) The Testament was his school-book.

1834 Encycl. Brit. IX. 355 He [Erasmus] had for some time been..employed in preparing an edition of the Greek Testament.

1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. viii. 142 I had brought with me a certain quantity of Testaments.

1869 M. MacLennan Peasant Life i. xvii. (E.D.D.) The Testament, and next ‘the Bible’, are regular class-books.

1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. viii. 233 Her little well-worn Testament open on her knee.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

testament-maker n.

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1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde B vj Where so euer is a testament, there muste the death of the testament maker go betwene.

testament-making n.

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1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 112 A female acquires the right of testament-making on reaching twelve.

b. (In sense 4.)

testament-book n.

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1573 New Custome iii. i. sig. Div Here, take at my handes this Testament booke.

C2.

testament-man n. a disciple of the New Testament.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > [noun] > follower of

testament-man1827

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd iii. 103 That mad ill-gainshon'd byke O' Test'ment-men that doth us fyke.

Derivatives

ˈtestament v. (intransitive) to make a will; transitive to leave by will, bequeath.

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > make a will [verb (intransitive)]

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a1878 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns & Poems (1892) 198 What's cross'd the craig Can ne'er be testamented.

ˈtestamenting n.

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1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 117 In diuers cases in the matter of testamenting a knight is priuiledged.

ˈtestamented adj. included in the Old or New Testament Scriptures.Apparently an isolated use.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > [adjective] > included in

testamented1907

1907 C. Gregory Canon & Text N.T. 220 He [sc. Clement] makes short comments on all the testamented Scripture.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2020).

单词	testament
释义	testamentn. /ˈtɛstəmənt/ Forms: Also Middle English testement, Middle English–1500s testment. Etymology: < Latin testāmentum a will; also, in early Christian Latin, used to render Greek διαθήκη covenant (see II.), < testārī to be a witness, attest, make a will, etc.: see -ment suffix. With the form teste-, testment, compare Old French testement, beside the more usual testament. I. In original sense of Latin testāmentum.This is apparently later in English than branch II. 1. a. Law. A formal declaration, usually in writing, of a person's wishes as to the disposal of his property after his death; a will. Formerly, properly applied to a disposition of personal as distinct from real property (cf. sense 1c). Now rare (chiefly in phrase last will and testament). ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will witword?997 quideOE bequeath1297 testamentc1330 willc1400 intestement1463 latter will1540 testimonialc1616 settlement1815 script1850 test1890 1306 Rolls of Parl. I. 220/1 Les executors de tieux testaments.] c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 20 Þre þousand marke he gaf with testament fulle right. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 78 I wole, ar I Wende write my Testament. a1400 Cursor M. 28322 Ic seketur made of testament, Ne folud noght..Þe testament for to fulfill. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 36 I..calle vpon hym to do his part in alle thinges longyng to my testement and wille. 1464 Rolls of Parl. V. 549/2 Ayenst the Testament and the last Wille of your seid noble Progenitour. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes i. f. 3 A testament properly vnderstoode, is one kinde of last will, euen that wherein Executor is named. 1669 Will of William Prynne in S. Gardiner Documents Proc. against W. Prynne (1877) 99 Whom I make sole executors of this my last will and testament, revoking all former wills. 1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. i. 12 The right of disposing one's property, or a part of it, by testament. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. vii. 81 The ecclesiastical tribunals..took the execution of testaments into their hands, on account of the legacies to pious uses, which testators were advised to bequeath. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Ulpian Rules xx, in tr. Gaius Institutes 400 A testament is the testification of our will, in the form prescribed by law, made solemnly, on purpose that it may be effectual after our death. b. transferred and figurative. (Cf. legacy n.) ΚΠ ?a1400 Morte Arth. 668 Take here my testament of tresoure fulle huge, As I trayste appone the, be traye thowe me never! ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ddiii The masse is the testament, the which our lorde made before his deth and passyon. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. vi. 27 And so espous'd to death, with blood he seal'd A Testament of Noble-ending-loue. View more context for this quotation 1667 Bp. J. Taylor 2nd Pt. Dissuasive from Popery i. iii. 110 The Gospels are Christ's Testament; and the Epistles are the Codicils annex'd. 1833 E. Burton Lect. Eccl. Hist. ii. xix. 152 The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs..professes to contain prophecies and exhortations delivered by the sons of Jacob shortly before their death. †c. transferred. Testamentary estate; personal as distinct from real property. Obsolete. 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When no executor has been nominated, an executor dative is appointed by the Court, and the decree appointing him is styled a testament dative (see dative adj. and n. Compounds 1). ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will > writing nominating executor testament1526 society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > will > writing nominating executor > confirmed by court testament-testamentar1666 1526 Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) II. 306/2 Quhar ony sic persouns deis w^tin age þat may no^t mak þar testamentis. 1564 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1790) 6 To the collectoris and ressaveris of the quotts, for confirmation of the testaments of the personis decessand within oure realm. 1666 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 67 If there be no Nomination or Testament made by the Defunct, or if the Testament Testamentar shall not be desired to be confirmed. 1666 Acts Sederunt Scotl. (1740) I. 69 Of all testaments, both great and small, which shall be confirmed, as well of Testaments dative, as others. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xxx. §33. 170 The Nomination of Executors, is properly called a Testament. 1768–73 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iii. ix. §7 Though nuncupative testaments are not effectual..to support the nomination of executors, yet nuncupative or verbal legacies are valid to the extent of L. 100 Scots. 1768–73 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iii. ix. §27 Where an executor named by the deceased is authorised by the Judge, it is called the confirmation of a testament-testamentary; and when the Judge confers the office of executor upon a person of his own nomination, it is styled the confirmation of a testament-dative. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 3. erroneous. = testimony n.; witness. 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In Christian Latin use of testāmentum.Originally a misuse of the word, arising from the fact that Greek διαθήκη, ‘disposition, arrangement’, was applied both to a covenant (pactum, fœdus) between parties, and to a testament or will (testamentum). Probably largely due to the use of διαθήκη (in the sense ‘covenant’) in the account of the Last Supper immediately before Christ's death, and its consequent association with the notion of a last will or testament. See also historical note s.v. covenant n. 7. 4. Scripture. A covenant between God and man: = covenant n. 7. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [noun] witword?997 testamentc1315 promissiona1325 covenanta1382 New Testamentc1384 comenaunt1389 promise?a1425 the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement > involving God, etc. testamentc1315 c1315 Shoreham i. 541 Þys hys þe chalis of my blode Of testament newe. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter cxxxi. 12 If þi sunnys hafe kepid my testament. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Baruch ii. 35 And Y shal sette to them an other testament euere durende. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Acts vii. 8 He ȝaf to him the testament of circumcisioun. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. xi. 25 This cuppe is the newe testament in my blood. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12886 Þe ald testament hir-wit nu slakes, And sua þe neu begining takes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12718 Quen drightin gan to sprad his grace..þe testament bigan he neu. c1430 J. Lydgate Letabundus 248 in Minor Poems In Reioysshyng of Crystes glad comynge; Two testamentys that day wer maad bothe Oon. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xliv. 216 His elect mother and arke of testament, Of holy chyrche the blessed lumynary. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. iii. 6 Able ministers of the New Testament [Gk. διακόνους καινῆς διαθήκης: Wyclif, able mynistris of the newe testament, 1881 R.V. ministers of a new covenant] . View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. iii. 14 In the reading of the old testament [R.V. at the reading of the old covenant] . View more context for this quotation 5. Hence, through the application of παλαιὰ and καινὴ διαθήκη, in the Itala and Vulgate vetus and novum testamentum, to the Mosaic and Christian ‘covenants’ or ‘dispensations’ (cf. 2 Cor. iii. 6, 14 cited in 4), the term passed in early Christian Latin (and thence in the languages of the West) to the books or records of the old and new covenants.This transition of sense took place many centuries before the adoption of the word in English, where the name was simply taken over from Latin or French in this transferred use. a. Each of the two main divisions of the Sacred Scriptures or Bible, the Old and the New Testament, consisting of the books of the old or Mosaic and the new or Christian covenant or dispensation respectively. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > [noun] testamenta1300 covenant1587 will1888 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > [noun] the old lawc1000 the Law and the Prophetsc1175 Moses and the Prophetsc1175 Biblea1300 Old and the New Testamenta1300 seventya1382 Old Testamenta1387 Septuagint1566 LXX1604 OT1845 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > [noun] gospel-bookc1000 Old and the New Testamenta1300 testament1568 the Christian volume1786 a1300 Cursor Mundi 120 I sal yow schew wit myn entent Brefli of aiþere testament. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter Prol. Þe lare of þe ald testament & of þe new. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 293 In þe olde testament me redeþ... In þe newe testament. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) Introd. 3 As the old testament beryth witnesse. 1532 T. Elyot Let. in Bk. named Gouernour (1880) I. Introd. p. lxxix Thei..doo peruse euery daye one chapitre of the New Testament. c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 235 A Large window full of fine paintings—the history of the testaments. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 162. ¶4 In the Old Testament we find several Passages more elevated and sublime than any in Homer. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. ii. 4 The coachman..could..have taken his oath on the two Testaments. b. The New Testament as distinct from the Old; a copy of the New Testament; a volume containing this. Common in Greek Testament. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > [noun] gospel-bookc1000 Old and the New Testamenta1300 testament1568 the Christian volume1786 1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) II. 148 So quhene, the psalme and testament to reid W^tin this land was nevir hard nor sene. 1831 R. Shennan Tales, Songs, & Misc. Poems 53 (E.D.D.) The Testament was his school-book. 1834 Encycl. Brit. IX. 355 He [Erasmus] had for some time been..employed in preparing an edition of the Greek Testament. 1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. viii. 142 I had brought with me a certain quantity of Testaments. 1869 M. MacLennan Peasant Life i. xvii. (E.D.D.) The Testament, and next ‘the Bible’, are regular class-books. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere I. i. viii. 233 Her little well-worn Testament open on her knee. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) testament-maker n. ΚΠ 1533 W. Tyndale Souper of Lorde B vj Where so euer is a testament, there muste the death of the testament maker go betwene. testament-making n. ΚΠ 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes ii. 112 A female acquires the right of testament-making on reaching twelve. b. (In sense 4.) testament-book n. ΚΠ 1573 New Custome iii. i. sig. Div Here, take at my handes this Testament booke. C2. testament-man n. a disciple of the New Testament. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > [noun] > follower of testament-man1827 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd iii. 103 That mad ill-gainshon'd byke O' Test'ment-men that doth us fyke. Derivatives ˈtestament v. (intransitive) to make a will; transitive to leave by will, bequeath. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > make a will [verb (intransitive)] test1582 testamentizea1661 testamenta1878 testate1892 a1878 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns & Poems (1892) 198 What's cross'd the craig Can ne'er be testamented. ˈtestamenting n. ΚΠ 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 117 In diuers cases in the matter of testamenting a knight is priuiledged. ˈtestamented adj. included in the Old or New Testament Scriptures.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > [adjective] > included in testamented1907 1907 C. Gregory Canon & Text N.T. 220 He [sc. Clement] makes short comments on all the testamented Scripture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.a1300
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