Complete Definition of "codicil"

English
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Etymology
Latin codicillus, diminutive of codex: compare French codicille. See code

Noun
en-noun

  1. law: A testamentary instrument ancillary to a will.

Quotations
(figurative)
2005 : If Nick answered a question Wani listened to him and then gave a flat little codicil or correction. - w:Alan Hollinghurst|Alan Hollinghurst, w:The Line of Beauty|The Line of Beauty, (Bloomsbury Publishing, paperback edition, 378)

Translations

French: codicille m
mid
Ido: kodicilo

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