Intestacy: alternatives and connections

A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a se…

The management and disposal, under legal authority, of the estate of an intestate, or of a testator having no competent executor.

A man who manages or settles the estate of an intestate, or of a testator when there is no competent executor; one to whom the right o…

A woman who administers; esp., one who administers the estate of an intestate, or to whom letters of administration have been granted;…

space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person); "the doctor stood at her bedside"

To call to remembrance by a special act or observance; to celebrate with honor and solemnity; to honor, as a person or event, by some…

Dying together or at the same time.

Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

The Coryphaena hippuris, a fish of about five feet in length, celebrated for its surprising changes of color when dying. It is the fis…

Of or pertaining to dying or death; as, dying bed; dying day; dying words; also, simulating a dying state.

In a dying manner; as if at the point of death.

The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.

The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction of the…

a doctrine that ethics and ethical ideas are valid and important; "his ethicism often led him to moralize"

An easy death; a mode of dying to be desired.

Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating.

The act of wavering or of fluttering; flucuation; sudden and brief increase of brightness; as, the last flicker of the dying flame.

The violent spasms of a dying whale.