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TESTAMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A profession of belief
Example:
he stated his political testament
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("testament" is a kind of...):
credo; creed (any system of principles or beliefs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Testament" is a kind of...):
religious text; religious writing; sacred text; sacred writing (writing that is venerated for the worship of a deity)
Holonyms ("Testament" is a part of...):
Bible; Book; Christian Bible; Good Book; Holy Scripture; Holy Writ; Scripture; Word; Word of God (the sacred writings of the Christian religions)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die
Synonyms:
testament; will
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("testament" is a kind of...):
instrument; legal document; legal instrument; official document ((law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right)
Meronyms (parts of "testament"):
codicil (a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "testament"):
Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)
New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)
devise (a will disposing of real property)
Derivation:
testamentary (of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Strong evidence for something
Example:
his easy victory was a testament to his skill
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("testament" is a kind of...):
testimonial; testimony (something that serves as evidence)
Context examples:
“In the act, my dear Annie,” repeated Mrs. Markleham, spreading the newspaper on her lap like a table-cloth, and patting her hands upon it, “of making his last Will and Testament. The foresight and affection of the dear! I must tell you how it was. I really must, in justice to the darling—for he is nothing less!—tell you how it was. Perhaps you know, Miss Trotwood, that there is never a candle lighted in this house, until one's eyes are literally falling out of one's head with being stretched to read the paper. And that there is not a chair in this house, in which a paper can be what I call, read, except one in the Study. This took me to the Study, where I saw a light. I opened the door. In company with the dear Doctor were two professional people, evidently connected with the law, and they were all three standing at the table: the darling Doctor pen in hand. “This simply expresses then,” said the Doctor—Annie, my love, attend to the very words—“this simply expresses then, gentlemen, the confidence I have in Mrs. Strong, and gives her all unconditionally?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He was taken ill in the night—quite prostrate he was—in consequence of Crab; and after being drugged with black draughts and blue pills, to an extent which Demple (whose father was a doctor) said was enough to undermine a horse's constitution, received a caning and six chapters of Greek Testament for refusing to confess.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
