TESTAMENTARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does testamentary mean? 

• TESTAMENTARY (adjective)
  The adjective TESTAMENTARY has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament

  Familiarity information: TESTAMENTARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TESTAMENTARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

testament (a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die)

Derivation:

testament (a legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die)

 Context examples 

Have you considered my daughter's station in life, the projects I may contemplate for her advancement, the testamentary intentions I may have with reference to her?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When he had told us so much he went on:—Frankly we did our best to prevent such a testamentary disposition, and pointed out certain contingencies that might leave her daughter either penniless or not so free as she should be to act regarding a matrimonial alliance.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had never so much as thought of making one, so far as his papers afforded any evidence; for there was no kind of hint, sketch, or memorandum, of any testamentary intention whatever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And you can hardly think, said Mr. Spenlow, having experience of what we see, in the Commons here, every day, of the various unaccountable and negligent proceedings of men, in respect of their testamentary arrangements—of all subjects, the one on which perhaps the strangest revelations of human inconsistency are to be met with—but that mine are made?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)