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Word Meanings - DEVISOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

Related words: (words related to DEVISOR)

  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • CORRELATIVENESS
    Quality of being correlative.
  • TESTATOR
    A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.
  • ESTATE
    The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm , which are the lords spiritual, the lords
  • DEVISEE
    One to whom a devise is made, or real estate given by will.
  • CORRELATIVELY
    In a correlative relation.
  • CORRELATIVE
    Having or indicating a reciprocal relation. Father and son, prince and subject, stranger and citizen, are correlative terms. Hume.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • INTESTATE
    1. Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate. Blackstone. Airy succeeders of intestate joys. Shak. 2. Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
  • DETESTATE
    To detest. Udall.
  • POTESTATE
    A chief ruler; a potentate. Wyclif. "An irous potestate." Chaucer.
  • RESTATE
    To state anew. Palfrey.
  • TESTATE
    Having made and left a will; as, a person is said to die testate. Ayliffe.
  • PROTESTATOR
    One who makes protestation; a protester.
  • COESTATE
    Joint estate. Smolett.

 

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