intestacy

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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intestate (ɪnˈtɛsteɪt, -tɪt)

—*adj*
1.	a. (of a person) not having made a will
	b. (of property) not disposed of by will

—n
2.	a person who dies without having made a will

[C14: from Latin intestātus, from in-¹ + testātus, from testārī to bear witness, make a will, from testis a witness]

in'testacy

—n

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