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- noun Plural form of
codicil .
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Examples
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A John Harvey witnessed his will, and some of its codicils, which is logical if Harvey had written it out for Carter.
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A John Harvey witnessed his will, and some of its codicils, which is logical if Harvey had written it out for Carter.
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah Perry, November 13, 1729 1729
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_Fasti_ of Imperial Rome, and what the precise nature of the consulship conferred by the "codicils" may have been, it is not easy to discover. [
Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation Thomas Hodgkin 1872
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Several minor codicils suggested themselves, and he wrote them out in long-hand, pre-dating them six months as a precaution.
CHAPTER XXX 2010
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It is a time of pledges, contracts, codicils, code-shares, blood oaths and exchanges of lewd winks with America.
A Handshake With America Peter Jeffrey 2010
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Two codicils: The best writing paper, bar none, is found in Clairefontaine notebooks and pads.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Two codicils: The best writing paper, bar none, is found in Clairefontaine notebooks and pads.
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But the cause of our quarrel is somewhat unusual, and I can be neither so practical nor so vulgar as to set about making codicils.
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The government has had over two and a quarter centuries to develop bylaws, operational procedures, codicils, and whatnot; there is always going to be a legislative fig leaf, suitable for framing and rationalization.
Health care reconciliation is an exercise in futility. | RedState 2010
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That would be all the more remarkable because the stimulus and ObamaCare included "maintenance of effort" codicils that bar states from kicking people off coverage or reducing benefits.
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