nuncupative

• Well, now, this terrible affair may take place before I can make my arrangements; so I will, with your permission, make a nuncupative will--I believe nuncupative is the word, but I am not sure Mowbray sighed; he found himself powerless before this incorrigible light-heartedness, and had not the resolution to check it. —  The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764
• A will of this kind is called a nuncupative will 4. —  The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
• 'It is the testamentum militare,' quoth the Baron, 'whilk, amang the Romans, was privilegiate to be nuncupative.' —  Waverley — Volume 2
• Painter, who appears, from its being nuncupative, to have deferred making it, until a speedy dissolution was expected. —  The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
• Romans, was privilegiate to be nuncupative. ' —  Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since

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