A person’s legally binding instructionsregarding how his or her estate should bedisposed of after death. Also called: Testament.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
will (verb)transitive verb
verbal auxiliary
- desire wish call it what you will
1.
- used to express desire, choice, willingness, consent, or in negative constructions refusal no one would take the job if we will all do our best will you please stop that racket
2.
- used to express frequent, customary, or habitual action or natural tendency or disposition will get angry over nothing will work one day and loaf the next
3.
- used to express futurity tomorrow morning I will wake up in this first-class hotel suite Tennessee Williams
4.
- used to express capability or sufficiency the back seat will hold three passengers
5.
- used to express probability and often equivalent to the simple verb that will be the babysitter
6.
a) - used to express determination, insistence, persistence, or willfulness I have made up my mind to go and go I will
b) - used to express inevitability accidents will happen
7.
intransitive verb
- used to express a command, exhortation, or injunction you will do as I say, at once to have a wish or desire - whether we will or no shall
1.
as - desire wish
a) - disposition inclination where there's a will there's a way
b) - appetite passion
c) - choice determination
2.
a) something desired , especially a choice or determination of one having authority or power
b) (1) archaic - request command
(2) from the phrase which introduces it the part of a summons expressing a royal command
3.
the act, process, or experience of - willing volition
4.
a) mental powers manifested as wishing, choosing, desiring, or intending
b) a disposition to act according to principles or ends
c) the collective desire of a group - the will of the people
5.
the power of control over one's own actions or emotions - a man of iron will
6.
a legal declaration of a person's wishes regarding the disposal of his or her property or estate after death , especially a written instrument legally executed by which a person makes disposition of his or her estate to take effect after death
transitive verb
1.
a) to order or direct by a will - willed that her property be divided among her children
b) to dispose of by or as if by a will - bequeath willed his entire estate to this wife
2.
a) to determine by an act of choice
b) - decree ordain Providence wills it
c) - intend purpose
intransitive verb
d) to cause or change by an act of will - believed he could will himself to succeed , also to try to do so
1.
to exercise the will
2.
- choose do as you will
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
will (noun)1.
the power to control one's actions, impulses, or emotions
SYNONYMS:
continence, restraint, self-command, self-containment, self-control, self-discipline, self-government, self-mastery, self-possession, self-restraint, willpowerRELATED WORDS:
self-abnegation, self-denial, self-deprivation; moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness; determination, nerve; command, control, discipline, mastery; abnegation, abstention, avoidance, eschewal, forbearance; abstinence, soberness, sobriety; aplomb, assurance, composure, confidence, coolness, equanimity, poise, self-confidence; discretionNEAR ANTONYMS:
gratification, indulgence, self-indulgence; excessiveness, immoderacy, intemperance, intemperateness, overindulgence; demerit, failing, fault, feebleness, foible, frailty, shortcoming, vice, weakness; indiscipline, unconstraint, unreserve, unreservedness, unrestraint2.
the act or power of making one's own choices or decisions
SYNONYMS:
accord, autonomy, choice, self-determination, volition, willRELATED WORDS:
election, preference, selection; bent, devices, disposition, inclination, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency; alternative, discretion, option, pick, wayNEAR ANTONYMS:
coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, force, pressure1.
to give by means of a will
SYNONYMS:
bequeath, willRELATED WORDS:
deed; hand down, hand on, pass (down); devise2.
to see fit
SYNONYMS:
like, please, want, will, wishRELATED WORDS:
ache (for), covet, crave, desire, die (for), fancy, hanker (for), hunger (for), itch (for), long (for), lust (for after), pant (after), pine (for), repine (for), sigh (for), thirst (for), yearn (for); decide, determine, resolveRisk Free Exam Pass Guarantee
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