codicil

To add a codicil (to).

Noun

  1. 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.
    • So insistent was this demand that the Wyandot actually received a codicil to the treaty […] - 2004, Barbara Alice Mann, “The Greenville Treaty of 1795: Pen-and-Ink Witchcraft in the Struggle for the Old Northwest”, in...
    • 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...
  3. Any appendix or addition.
    • If Nick answered a question Wani listened to him and then gave a flat little codicil or correction. - 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN,...

Origin

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

Forms

codicils

Derived

codicillary

Verb

  1. To add a codicil (to).

Forms

codicils codiciling codicilling codiciled codicilled