(v. t.) To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.
(v. t.) To hand down; to transmit.
(v. t.) To give; to offer; to commit.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
(3) Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) died young, had a public career for only 10 years, had no workshop, bequeathed no drawings and left no pupils, and the only places he travelled to outside mainland Italy were the Mediterranean speck of Malta and, briefly, Sicily.
(4) Read more By not doing so, the theory is, and by bequeathing the responsibility to whoever succeeds him, Cameron has handed the next prime minister a poisoned chalice.
(5) Senator Paul’s father, Ron, may not have made it as far in his presidential campaigns as the two Bushes and Bill Clinton, but he bequeathed to his son a powerful legacy of goodwill among libertarian-leaning voters, without which it is hard to imagine him getting as far as he has done.
(6) Dispossession bequeathed land the size of Cyprus to Bradshaw Station, first for cattle, and now as the Bradshaw Field Training Area, one of the largest weapons training grounds in the world.
(7) Tony Blair's effortless ability to enrage his many critics, especially on the left, was evident again when he popped up on BBC Radio 4's Today programme to insist that MPs' rejection of military action against Syria was not directly linked to the legacy of mistrust he bequeathed over the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
(8) In condemning Labour's limited success in closing the poverty gap after 1997 he ignored the legacy of inequality bequeathed by Margaret Thatcher's pro-market reforms after 1979.
(9) We sent out a questionnaire to people who have bequeathed their bodies to the medical school, the people being randomly selected on the basis of the inclusion of the initial J in a forename.
(10) But the key to Mission's success lies, perhaps, in FoxFaith's one bona fide success: The Ultimate Gift (2006), an intergenerational wealth transfer fable, no less, about a filthy rich but morally stainless old oil baron who wants to bequeath his billions to his grandson but fears cash may corrupt him (solution: he shoots a series of beyond-the-grave advice videos).
(11) In some of his toughest remarks on welfare, Clegg said Labour had bequeathed a system that was unaffordable and did not make work pay.
(12) The baby boomers stand accused of bequeathing a world to the young that is blighted by climate change, record youth unemployment and soaring bills for housing and higher education.
(13) I am not at all sure about the truth of this, because my father had a finely tuned sense of humour that he was good enough to bequeath to me, presumably to make up for the weak bladder, short stature and male pattern baldness which regrettably came with the package.
(14) The PM has authority, momentum and the extra yard of pace that is bequeathed by surprise.
(15) These great families formed what Annan called an "intellectual aristocracy", who bequeathed to their descendants not money or titles, but rather "some trait of personality, some tradition of behaviour, which did not perish with the passing of the years".
(16) Although the council has also benefited from bequeathed land that has helped fund the city’s infrastructure, from now on, just like everywhere else, new developments must be driven by the private sector.
(17) Years of slump, flatlining and wage-increase-free recovery have bequeathed a sense of unease.
(18) To deny this is just one more version of white flight - a dash from the inconveniences bequeathed by inequality.
(19) He bequeathed land on which the University of Cape Town was built.
(20) The foods that constituted the core of the diet of the Americas before 1492--from maize to potatoes, beans to tomatoes, to numerous other fruits and vegetables--became the true patrimony that the inhabitants of the New World bequeathed to humanity.
Bequest
Definition:
(n.) The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.
(n.) That which is left by will, esp. personal property; a legacy; also, a gift.
(v. t.) To bequeath, or leave as a legacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) It showed how less than 40% of the cohort born in the 1930s have received or expect to receive a bequest, while for those born in the 1970s the figure is 75%.
(2) Log-linear modeling of inheritance attitudes shows that living with married children, lower educational attainment, and living in a traditionally agricultural area are associated with favoring bequests to eldest sons, as opposed to bequests to all children equally or to whoever takes care of the elderly person.
(3) The bequest paintings are in Twombly's distinctive swirling calligraphic style.
(4) Even Gordon Brown, who has a foot in both camps, was moved to congratulate d'Offay's exemplary 'bequest'.
(5) Similar sums were raised by the National Gallery in London from bequests, gifts and private donors rumoured to include the Getty Foundation.
(6) A bequest to the party worth almost £770,000 was among more than £4.8m received in donations in the fourth quarter of 2013.
(7) The bulk will go to the Save the Children fund in India, with smaller bequests to a science and religion group that is studying the effects of Buddhist practice and to a project to train Buddhist monks as scientists.
(8) Books were regularly ordered from William Strahan in London, and gifts and bequests added still more volumes.
(9) The Pulitzers have been bestowed since 1917, at the bequest of the legendary newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer who established the honour in his will as a means of encouraging publicly-spirited journalism.
(10) But Meles's authoritarianism attracted the frequent censure of human rights groups, and such concerns will inevitably temper assessments of his bequest to Ethiopia .
(11) Beryl Wilkins, a local historian, lives a stone's throw from a former school built in 1624 as a bequest from the lord of the manor, Lord Knyvett – the man, she says, who felt the collar of one Guy Fawkes.
(12) This article describes the two international fellowship programs administered by the International Cooperation Committee of the Medical Library Association: (1) the program supported by the Rockfeller Foundation from 1948 to 1963; (2) the Eileen R. Cunningham program, supported by Mrs. Cunningham's bequest to the association, from 1971 to date.
(13) It’s not exactly new: more than a century ago, in his Gospel of Wealth, the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie sought to steer millionaires away from the charitable bequest toward warm-blooded inter vivos giving.
(14) The questionnaire sought information on sex, marital status, age, occupation at the time of bequest and bequest information source, as well as reasons for the bequest, expectations of cadaver use and attitudes towards organ donation.
(15) This study reviews the retirement, precautionary, and bequest motives for saving, then evaluates how marriage dissolution may (a) decrease the family's savings rate, (b) cause shifts in the family's portfolio to assets with lower rates of return, and (c) destroy or deplete existing family assets.
(16) The principal revenues derive from private donations (bequests, card sales etc.
(17) According to Nelson's sister, Mabel, he made a dying bequest to the Thembu regent, David Dalindyebo, giving Nelson into his care.
(18) The results are consistent with modernization theory of gerontology and convergence theory of family sociology in that elderly persons with more "modern" characteristics are more likely to depart from prewar ideals of living with married children and preferring bequests to eldest sons only.
(19) ", the scale of the Georgian bequest is prodigious, and not merely confined to some rather impressive buildings.
(20) The money left by Violet Baker led to reports of a family rift, with her sister-in-law claiming the bequest was made out of "spite".