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

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

After making one, which, as Sir John Hawkins informs us, extended no further than the promised annuity, Johnson's final disposition of his property was established by a Will and Codicil.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor

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