(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.
Impart
Definition:
(n.) To bestow a share or portion of; to give, grant, or communicate; to allow another to partake in; as, to impart food to the poor; the sun imparts warmth.
(n.) To obtain a share of; to partake of.
(n.) To communicate the knowledge of; to make known; to show by words or tokens; to tell; to disclose.
(v. i.) To give a part or share.
(v. i.) To hold a conference or consultation.
Example Sentences:
(1) The suggested method is used to estimate the fraction of energy imparted to vital organs only.
(2) Since protein synthesis could not proceed in those cells because of the lack of energy and tryptophan, the data indicate that an unknown mechanism exists which imparts some mutations with the resistance to antimutagenic repair in the absence of the inducible mutagenic system.
(3) At the former site the membrane overlying the bud showed an electron opaque thickening which imparted to the mature particle an asymmetrical appearance.
(4) Discussion still continues regarding whether self-tolerance is imparted within the thymus by the thymic epithelial cells (TEC) or by the bone marrow-derived (BMD) dendritic cells and macrophages.
(5) A more likely explanation for the inhibition, which is supported by our data, presented here and elsewhere, is that certain surface components of meningococci are capable of imparting immunosuppressive signals directly onto target lymphocytes.
(6) Preliminary results indicated that immunization with attenuated cercariae was capable of imparting protective immunity in mice.
(7) The presence of significant right-sided heart failure also imparts a worse prognosis.
(8) The results of this study suggest that the "old" dental curriculum was successful in imparting knowledge concerning traditional dental subjects and preventive dentistry, but less successful in imparting knowledge concerning basic and medical sciences, behavioural subjects and in relating theoretical and practical skills.
(9) Biochemical analysis showed that red pigmentation of tumor cells was imparted by pteridines and carotenoids, most of which were detectable in normal adult erythrophores.
(10) Differences in ovulation rate, embryo survival, litter size, and fertility are presented for four lines of mice that have been selected for growth or are homozygous for a recessive gene (hg) imparting rapid postweaning gain.
(11) But right now none of that is the problem: the problem is that this amendment expressly removes the right of organisations such as Marie Stopes and the British Pregnancy Advisory Service to impart information.
(12) "The much larger than initially expected economic and fiscal costs of the 11 March earthquake are magnifying the adverse effects imparted by the global financial crisis from which Japan's economy has not completely recovered," Moody's said.
(13) High Hopes , assembled from cover versions, songs left off recent albums and new versions of old favourites, appears on the surface to have no central message to impart.
(14) This selectivity of responsiveness imparted by oxytocin might contribute to the blunted release of TSH after suckling.
(15) The processing of pro-ConA apparently imparts biological activity to this lectin.
(16) These findings raise the question of the potential involvement of some gene or oncogene, perhaps the p53 oncogene, which might impart a survival advantage to the malignant cells.
(17) The law no longer requires that certain information be imparted to the patient prior to testing for the human immunodeficiency virus.
(18) The multiple-unit records were post processed based on the unique physical characteristics imparted to each spike via the tissue medium and spatial geometry of cells.
(19) My dear stoic father, honest as the days are long, was looking, for once in his life, thoroughly jangled, and I kept wanting to impart upon him mentally the wise words of Grandpa Abe Simpson : "They say the greatest tragedy is when a father outlives his son.
(20) It was found that the sorbitol-gelatin imparted more satisfactory stability (r = +0.18) to the freeze-dried virus suspensions than did the glutamic acid-lactose.