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.