Word Meanings - DEVISOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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.