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Jun 5, 2007
This week's themeWords that turn into other words when beheaded This week's words premorse testate previse strident educe A.Word.A.Day on your site Add the daily word to your web page. It is free. 
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testate (TES-tayt) adjective Having made a legally valid will. [From Latin testatus (witnessed), from testari (to bear witness or to make a will). Ultimately from the Indo-European root trei- (three) that's also the source of such words as three, testify (to be the third person: to bear witness), and triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13).] See more usage examples of testate in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.
"'You want to do the will tonight?' my wife would coo. We put it off.
The sight of a blank will leaves a man too testy to be testate."
Steve Rubenstein; Where There's a Will There's a Clark;
X-BonusWhen nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together. -Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer (1849-1914) |
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