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codicil

[kod-uh-suhl] / ˈkɒd ə səl /


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The chairman, Jerrold Nadler of New York, is the product of a Yeshiva education, which involves the rigorous wrangling of arguments about arguments about Talmudic codicils.

From Washington Post • Dec. 3, 2019

When pressed on the details of the codicils, Secretary of State John Kerry claimed never to have read them.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2016

"So some of the codicils here are not lawful."

From The Verge • Sep. 1, 2016

"I want to first sit in my little chair in my house, take the agreement, the codicils and the annexes, and read them and ponder them and study them," he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2015

Striking to the contemporary eye, the 117 codicils of the Great Law were concerned as much with establishing the limits on the great council’s powers as on granting them.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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