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A translation or paraphrase of some portion of the Old Testament Scriptures in the Chaldee or Aramaic language or dialect.

To make a testament, or will. [Obs.]

The state or circumstance of being testate, or of leaving a valid will, or testament, at death.

A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.

the very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, as represented to us in the New Testament, morals come before contemplation, ethics before theoretics. H. B. Wilson.

Absence or lack of peace. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

ized, Version of the Scriptures (see under Authorized); the Septuagint Version of the Old Testament.

ulgar language. Bp. Fell. The mechanical process of multiplying books had brought the New Testament in the vulgar tongue within the reach of every class. Bancroft.

executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1.

ting; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ. "Though in Holy Writ not named." Milton. Then to his hands that writ he did betake, Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake. Spenser. Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ. Knolles.…

The author of the passages of the Old Testament, esp. those of the Hexateuch, in which God is styled Yahweh, or Jehovah; the author of the Yahwistic, or Jehovistic, Prophetic Document (J); also, the document itself.