intestate

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: in=tes=tate

CIDE DICTIONARY

intestate, a. [L. intestatus; pref. in- not + testatus, p. p. of testari to make a will: cf. F. intestat. See Testament.].

•  Without having made a valid will; without a will; as, to die intestate.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

  "Airy succeeders of intestate joys."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not devised or bequeathed; not disposed of by will; as, an intestate estate.  [1913 Webster]

intestate, n. 

 A person who dies without making a valid will.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

intestate, adj. & n.
--adj. (of a person) not having made a will before death.
--n. a person who has died intestate.

Derivative

intestacy n.

Etymology

ME f. L intestatus (as IN-(1), testari testat- make a will f. testis witness)

ROGET THESAURUS

intestate

Obliteration

N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.