Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - bequeath
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v.tr. 1 leave (a personal estate) to a person by a will. 2 hand down to posterity. Derivatives bequeathal n. bequeather n. Etymology: OE becwethan (as BE-, cwethan say: cf. QUOTH) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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v. 1) завещать (движимость, деньги) to bequeath to smb. - завещать кому-л. This ring was bequeathed to me by my grandmother. I bequeath to my children the rest of my property, to be divided equally. 2) передавать потомству ...Англо-русский словарь
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(bequeaths, bequeathing, bequeathed) 1. If you bequeath your money or property to someone, you legally state that they should have it when you die. (FORMAL) He bequeathed all his silver to his children. = leave VERB: V n to n 2. If you bequeath an idea or system, you leave it for other people to use or develop. (FORMAL) He bequeaths his successor an economy that is doing quite well... It is true that colonialism did not bequeath much to Africa. VERB: V n n, V n to n, also V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~ v 1 to officially arrange for someone to have something that you own after your death (bequeath sth to sb) (She bequeathed her collection of paintings to the National Gallery. | bequeath sb sth) (His father bequeathed him a fortune.) 2 to pass knowledge, customs etc to people who come after you or live after you ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- O.E. becweрan, from cweрan "to say," from P.Gmc. *kwethanan. Original sense of "say, utter" died out 13c., leaving legal sense of "transfer by will." Closely related to bequest (14c.), from O.E. *cwis, *cwiss, with excrescent -t. "An old word kept alive in wills" [O.E.D.]. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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