cestuy

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French.

Noun

cestuy (plural cestuys)

  1. (law, archaic) he; the one; the person in question

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “cestuy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

Old French cestui

Pronoun

cestuy

  1. this one (the object/person in question)

Synonyms
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