Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that makes a will; a testator.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Law) A testator; one who bequeaths a legacy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
donor .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yet it is not obvious what such a legacy means, when the legator is such a peculiarly fetishized and disavowed figure.
Introduction 2005
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Another thing they learned was that, even then, they would not receive the whole of the money left them, for seeing they could claim no relation to the legator, ten per cent must be deducted from their legacy.
Far Above Rubies George MacDonald 1864
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The residue of his personal estate was left to four gentlemen, three of whom had quitted this world before the legator; the bequests, therefore, had lapsed.
Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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"many a slip betwixt the cup" of the legator and "the lip" of the legatee.
George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874
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