testament
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
testament/ˈtestəmənt/
▶noun
- 1 a person's will.
- 2 evidence or proof of a fact, event, or quality.
- 3 (in biblical use) a covenant or dispensation.
- 4 (Testament) a division of the Bible. See also Old Testament, New Testament.
– origin ME: from L. testamentum ‘a will’ (from testari ‘testify’), in Christian L. also translating Gk diathēkē ‘covenant’.
'testament' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abba
- Apocrypha
- Armageddon
- Chaldee
- epistle
- Gadarene
- gospel
- Hebrew Bible
- hexapla
- jeremiad
- Judaism
- Mammon
- New Testament
- NT
- nuncupative
- Old Testament
- OT
- Pentateuch
- prophet
- revelation
- Septuagint
- type
