n.
- a person's will.
- evidence or proof of a fact, event, or quality.
- (in biblical use) a covenant or dispensation.
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(Testament)
a division of the Bible. See also Old Testament, New Testament.
Etymology
ME: from L. testamentum ‘a will’ (from testari ‘testify’), in Christian L. also translating Gk diathēkē ‘covenant’.
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