testament

testament is a Noun

Definition:

[1] A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.

[2] 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. He is the mediator of the new testament . . . for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament. Heb. ix. 15. Holographic testament, a testament written wholly by the testator himself. Bouvier.