Both Uses of
testament
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- How is your testament?†
Chpt 12 *
- There master Courtenay, sitting in his own chamber, gave his rede and master Justice Andrews, sitting without a jury in the probate court, weighed well and pondered the claim of the first chargeant upon the property in the matter of the will propounded and final testamentary disposition in re the real and personal estate of the late lamented Jacob Halliday, vintner, deceased, versus Livingstone, an infant, of unsound mind, and another.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(testament) evidence for something
or:
a statement of belief
or:
a will (written instructions expressing how somebody wants their property distributed after they die)
or:
either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible