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bequest
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB make ▪ Instead, Theda slipped into the ballroom to think about Lady Merchiston's determination to make her a bequest . ▪ I don't want to make bequests to some one who might squander them. ▪ For example, the marginal ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of bequeathing or leaving by will. 2 The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased. 3 That which is left by will; a legacy. 4 That which has been handed down or transmitted. 5 A person's inheritance; ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bequest \Be*quest"\, v. t. To bequeath, or leave as a legacy. [Obs.] ``All I have to bequest.'' --Gascoigne.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "act of bequeathing," from be- + *cwis , *cwiss "saying" (related to quoth ; from Proto-Germanic *kwessiz ; see bequeath ), with excrescent -t . Meaning "that which is bequeathed" is recorded from late 15c.\n
Usage examples of bequest.
And now, you see, a second philanthropist has died-one who has left a generous bequest to The Foundation.
It was her pet project, the prototype of several other homes for juveniles that she hinted The Foundation might be able to finance with the generous bequest she might leave us.
Everywhere I looked, the Welcome Home for Girls cried out for massive infusions of money-the kind that a generous bequest from Mrs.
I surmised that Allison had killed Florence Hatch to get the bequest for the home and secure her own job .
A rather curious bequest consisting of a key which seemed to be of the old gatehouse at Kleetsworth Hall, the family seat.
At any rate, he died recently and saw fit to leave you a bequest in his will.
If the Earthservice picked up the tab for his fare to Epiphany, only to find that his bequest was of little or no value, would the bureaucracy be willing to unpocket for a ticket home?
He has orders to discover what he can about the bequest, but his primary mission is to execute Floyt and his escort.
State expenses, that of those one hundred and forty millions and a great mass of private treasure besides, accumulated from various sources, a mere fifteen million remained for bequest, much of this not easily realizable in cash.
They also brought a private letter from Tiberius approving the promises made to the men on his behalf with the exception of the doubled bequest, which would now have to be promised to the entire Army, not merely the regiments in Germany.
The other two regiments had refuse to leave the summer camp until the whole bequest was paid them.
He undertook to repay him the amount of the doubled bequest and to extend the bounty to the Balkan regiments too.
Aquillius settled to organize the bequest as the Roman province of Asia.
This did not, however, include certain important sums of money, not reckoned in the estate and already tied up in sacks in the vaults of the Capitol, which had been set aside as particular bequests to confederate kings, to senators and knights, to his soldiers, and to the citizens of Rome.
And they verify what Conrad told us, that Dinah used that bank account the way she used Sloan, to handle those bequests and donations she wanted to keep quiet.