codicilとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Middle French codicille, from Latin cōdicillus, diminutive of cōdex. See code.

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɒdɪsɪl/, /ˈkəʊdɪsɪl/

名詞

codicil (plural codicils)

1. (law) An addition or supplement that explains, modifies, or revokes a will or part of one.
2. An addition or supplement modifying any official document, such as a treaty.
   • 2004, Barbara Alice Mann, “The Greenville Treaty of 1795: Pen-and-Ink Witchcraft in the Struggle for the Old Northwest”, in Bruce E. Johansen, editor, Enduring Legacies: Native American Treaties and Contemporary Controversies‎, Praeger, page 155:

     So insistent was this demand that the Wyandot actually received a codicil to the treaty […]

   • 2023 January 26, Christopher Caldwell, “It’s Anyone’s Guess What Will Happen in Northern Ireland in the Next 12 Weeks”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     Those loose ends were tied up in a little-understood clarification of Brexit called the Northern Ireland protocol, ratified in January 2020. It looked like a mere codicil three years ago; now it looks like a serious diplomatic blunder that could threaten Britain’s territory and the region’s peace.

3. (by extension) Any appendix or addition.
   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 378:

     If Nick answered a question Wani listened to him and then gave a flat little codicil or correction.

派生語

動詞

codicil (third-person singular simple present codicils, present participle (US) codiciling or (UK) codicilling, simple past and past participle (US) codiciled or (UK) codicilled)

1. (ergative) To add a codicil (to).

アナグラム

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