codicil
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Will it make us say, “So this is why, throughout history, cheap thrills are always so tempting”? Codicil: Remember, the road to hell is always paved with more wild-card teams.
From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2020
In Witness whereof, I the said Humphrey Wickham have to this Codicil Addition, or further part of my said Will, set my Hand and Seal, this Twenty eighth Day of December, Anno Dom.
From The Notorious Impostor and Diego Redivivus by Settle, Elkanah
The Codicil is witnessed by the same persons.
From A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land by Hughes, William R. (William Richard)
Codicil, kod′i-sil, n. a short writing or note added as a supplement to a will.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
Then follow the Prayer and Codicil already inserted in the Narrative, which conclude HIS LORDSHIP'S manuscript.
From Authentic Narrative of the Death of Lord Nelson by Beatty, William
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