the faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions: the freedom of the will.
2.
power of choosing one's own actions: to have a strong or a weak will.
3.
the act or process of using or asserting one's choice; volition: My hands are obedient to my will.
4.
wish or desire: to submit against one's will.
5.
purpose or determination, often hearty or stubborn determination; willfulness: to have the will to succeed.
6.
the wish or purpose as carried out, or to be carried out: to work one's will.
7.
disposition, whether good or ill, toward another.
8.
Law.
a.
a legal declaration of a person's wishes as to the disposition of his or her property or estate after death, usually written and signed by the testator and attested by witnesses.
b.
the document containing such a declaration.
–verb (used with object)
9.
to decide, bring about, or attempt to effect or bring about by an act of the will: He can walk if he wills it.
10.
to purpose, determine on, or elect, by an act of will: If he wills success, he can find it.
11.
to give or dispose of (property) by a will or testament; bequeath or devise.
12.
to influence by exerting will power: She was willed to walk the tightrope by the hypnotist.
–verb (used without object)
13.
to exercise the will: To will is not enough, one must do.
14.
to decide or determine: Others debate, but the king wills.
—Idiom
15.
at will,
a.
at one's discretion or pleasure; as one desires: to wander at will through the countryside.
b.
at one's disposal or command.
[Origin: bef. 900; (n.) ME will(e), OE will(a); c. D wil, G Wille, ON vili, Goth wilja; (v.) ME willen, OE willian to wish, desire, deriv. of the n.; akin to will1]
—Related forms
willer, noun
—Synonyms 3. choice. 4. pleasure, disposition, inclination. 5. resolution, decision. Will,volition refer to conscious choice as to action or thought. Will denotes fixed and persistent intent or purpose: Where there's a will there's a way. Volition is the power of forming an intention or the incentive for using the will: to exercise one's volition in making a decision. 9. determine. 11. leave.
will1Audio Help/wɪl/Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[wil]Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciationauxiliary verb and verb, present singular 1st person will, 2nd will or (Archaic) wilt, 3rd will, present plural will; past singular 1st person would, 2nd would or (Archaic) wouldst, 3rd would, past plural would; past participle (Obsolete) wold or would; imperative, infinitive, and present participle lacking.
–auxiliary verb
1.
am (is, are, etc.) about or going to: I will be there tomorrow. She will see you at dinner.
2.
am (is, are, etc.) disposed or willing to: People will do right.
3.
am (is, are, etc.) expected or required to: You will report to the principal at once.
4.
may be expected or supposed to: You will not have forgotten him. This will be right.
5.
am (is, are, etc.) determined or sure to (used emphatically): You would do it. People will talk.
6.
am (is, are, etc.) accustomed to, or do usually or often: You will often see her sitting there. He would write for hours at a time.
7.
am (is, are, etc.) habitually disposed or inclined to: Boys will be boys. After dinner they would read aloud.
8.
am (is, are, etc.) capable of; can: This tree will live without water for three months.
9.
am (is, are, etc.) going to: I will bid you “Good night.”
–verb (used with object), verb (used without object)
10.
to wish; desire; like: Go where you will. Ask, if you will, who the owner is.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME willen, OE wyllan; c. D willen, G wollen, ON vilja, Goth wiljan; akin to L velle to wish]
will, in law, document expressing the wishes of a person (known as a testator) concerning the disposition of her property after her death. If a person dies intestate, i.e., without a valid will, statutes determine how her property is divided up among her relatives; if no relatives can be found, the property escheats (i.e., goes to the government). Wills are made to vary the statutory scheme (e.g., to give a crippled child more money than a healthy child). The will may provide for outright grants or for the establishment of trusts. No particular form of words is necessary in a will, only a clear expression of intent. Statutes usually protect the surviving spouse and children, prescribing for them a set proportion of the estate whatever the provisions of the will. Wills ordinarily must be in writing, but in certain strictly defined circumstances (e.g., in the case of soldiers or sailors in combat) the law may recognize an oral will as reported by a witness. Written wills must be subscribed (i.e., signed below the complete text) by the testator and must bear the signatures of two (or, in some jurisdictions, three) people who witnessed the testator's signature. A person has capacity to make a will only when he is of sound mind and is not unduly influenced by an interested party. Persons below a certain age (usually ranging from 18 to 21) are deemed not to have the capacity. All objections to a will must be made at the probate, which precedes the distribution (administration) of the property. Real and personal property were once passed on by two different systems, but today only remnants of the division remain (e.g., in separate sets of terms). In England the Statute of Wills (1540) lifted many restrictions on the use of wills and permitted the testator to dispose of real property by will. See heir.
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