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codicils

codicils is the plural of codicil.

codicils is the third-person singular simple present indicative of codicil.

Meaning of codicil

Noun

codicil (plural codicils)

  1. An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.
  2. An addition or supplement modifying any official document, such as a treaty.
    • So insistent was this demand that the Wyandot actually received a codicil to the treaty […]2004, Barbara Alice Mann, “The Greenville Treaty of 1795: Pen-and-Ink Witchcraft in the Struggle for the Old Northwest”, in Bruce E. Johansen, editor, Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and...
  3. (broadly) Any appendix or addition.
    • If Nick answered a question Wani listened to him and then gave a flat little codicil or correction.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378

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Questions about codicils

What is codicils the plural of?
Codicils is the plural of codicil.

Words near codicils in the dictionary

  1. codiciled
  2. codiciling
  3. codicillary
  4. codicilled
  5. codicilling
  6. codicils
  7. codicological
  8. codicologically
  9. codicologies
  10. codicologist
  11. codicologists

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