(a.) Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate.
(a.) Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.
(n.) A person who dies without making a valid will.
Example Sentences:
(1) As many tests as possible had to be performed in assessing jejunum and ileum function as the intestional abnormalities were not limited to one site.
(2) The disturbance of liver cells in enterotoxemia induced by intestional obstruction was clear and needed our attention in the management of intestional obstruction from this animal model.
(3) Within 1 h, female rats excreted into the intesting via the bile greater than 95% of the injected dose of [3-H]aldosterone, compared to 47% in the male rats.
(4) The effect of harmaline on phenylalanine uptake by the intesting is duplicated by other psychotropic indole analogues.
(5) Both activated and nonactivated macrophages ingest IgG-coated erythrocytes [E(IgG)]; activated cells intest 1.5-2 times as man E(IgG) as do nonactivated macrophages.
(6) Berkeley also wants parliament to remove the prince's right to claim legacies from ordinary people who die intestate in Cornwall.
(7) Under the old rules, if a spouse died intestate and there were no children, then the first £450,000 of the estate, plus half of the rest, went to the surviving spouse.
(8) • Tomorrow's Guardian Money section is a "cost of dying" special, covering everything from probate and writing a will to dying intestate and inheritance tax
(9) Insurance and wills and testaments and executors and codicils and things intestate.
(10) Under Swedish inheritance law this meant that, because he died intestate, she was entitled to nothing.
(11) Acetylcholine mustard (N-2-chloroethyl-N-methyl-2-acetoxyethylamine), a potent muscarinic agonist, binds virtually irreversibly to muscarinic receptors in longitudinal muscle strips from guinea-pig small intesting, as shown by the inhibition of the binding of E13-H]-propylbenzilycholine mustard ([3-H-PrBCM), an affinity label for the muscarinin receptor.
(12) The lipid-containing bacteriophage PR4 is of special intest because it can replicate in various gram-negative bacteria, including Escherichia coli, that carry one of a group of drug resistance plasmids.
(13) In high intestity light it reflects the dark limiting step in the reoxidation mechanism of System II primary acceptors.
(14) The tussle between her and Larsson's family continues, and she feels bound to highlight the legal morass unmarried people face when their partner dies intestate.
(15) Such events are briefly described as background information to a discussion of how selection of proteins might take place during transport across the cellular barriers concerned, namely the yolk sac splanchnopleur, chorio-allantoic placenta, and small intesting.
(16) If you are married or in a civil partnership and die intestate, the surviving spouse or civil partner gets everything if there are no children.
(17) In the small intesting of the suckling rat these two processes appear to be segregated, selective uptake occurring in the proximal half and non-selective uptake occurring in the distal half.
(18) 5'-Nucleotidase prepared from muscle of small intesting of pig is strongly inhibited by nucleoside di- and triphosphates and their phosphonate analogs.
(19) The results of these studies, although intesting, are impractical for application to human subjects.
(20) Congenital malformation of the submucous plexus (Neuronal Intestional Dysplasia Typ B or NID B).
Testament
Definition:
(n.) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.
(n.) One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the same court also just refused to hear an appeal of a Minnesota woman who's been ordered to pay more than $220,000 for downloading two-dozen songs – a testament to Congress' gift to Hollywood and its allies in the form of absurdly stiff penalties for minor infringement.
(2) Fifa and I will take the Qatari authorities at their word and I look forward to the concrete actions which will be the real testament of will,” Infantino said.
(3) "[The consortium award] is fantastic news for them and is a testament to the leadership of their individual organisations," he said.
(4) "This is a major milestone and testament to the burgeoning reputation of UK automotive excellence and demand for British-made cars."
(5) The unremitting assault on Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces over recent days is certainly testament to that.” In a week of what residents have described as the worst airstrike campaign since the start of the civil war in Syria , forces loyal to Assad have begun the early stages of a ground offensive aimed at reclaiming eastern Aleppo, which has been under opposition control since 2012.
(6) Indeed, the word establishment is testament to its one-time importance: the term is likely to derive from the fact that the Church of England is the country's "established church", or state religion, with the monarch serving as its head.
(7) It was a reference to a Bible passage in the New Testament.
(8) With every year and every budget its continued use was an annual testament to dependability, continuity and fiscal prudence.
(9) The simple fact that the government expects perhaps just 2% or “at most 8%” of fathers to take up parental leave is testament to that.
(10) She soon emerged before a frantic press corps and offered a short statement – a testament to the campaign’s desire to put the issue to rest.
(11) Photograph: Guillaume Bression for the Guardian It is testament to the disquiet the protests have caused that Abe appears determined to pass the bills by Friday, ahead of five straight days of public holidays that could bring even bigger crowds out on the streets.
(12) The Federal Reserve chair, Janet Yellen, said she was “looking forward” to a US interest rate hike, which would be a testament to the economy’s recovery from recession.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest John Kasich wins Ohio primary: ‘The campaign goes on’ It’s a wonderful testament to today’s Republican party that you can measure a candidate’s credentials by the lack of contraband.
(14) Twelve days of Star Wars: film rockets to $1bn at the box office in record time Read more “The speed with which records are falling is a testament to the audience broadening out.
(15) Is this a case study in Libyan dysfunction or a testament to the depth of Libya's conversion to democratic practices?
(16) Stepping inside, what I'm confronted with is not testament to organisational ability, but a collective drive to prove that the party is still alive.
(17) The concessions he agreed, and the £9.25m "dowry" paid to the Lebedevs to buy it in the form of guaranteed investment for the next 10 months, are testament to O'Reilly's eagerness to sell.
(18) The LUFC academy is now regarded as one of the most productive in the country and last season proved testament to that with the continued development of Sam Byram, Alex Mowatt, Lewis Cook, Charlie Taylor, Kalvin Phillips, Lewis Walters and Chris Dawson amongst a crop of outstanding young players to wear the Leeds badge of honour and to don the famous white shirt.
(19) Their loss has been our gain as the longlist casts a wide net in terms of both geography and tone, ranging from the slimmest of novels – Colm Tóibín's stark, surprising The Testament of Mary conjures the gospel according to Jesus's mother in a mere 100-odd pages – to vast doorstops, playful with genre and form.
(20) "These figures are really a testament to the hard work of doctors and nurses in meeting increased patient demand while keeping waiting times lower than Labour ever managed", said a spokesman.