Definition of "bequeath" []

• Law To leave or give (personal property) by will. (verb-transitive)
• To pass (something) on to another; hand down: bequeathed to their children a respect for hard work. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "And lastly, (for there is no end of enumerating every particular of his glory,) with one word bequeath all this power and splendor to his posterity?"
• "A loophole in the rules allows council house tenants to "bequeath" their tenancies when they die."
• "The dictionary meaning of "bequeath": 1) to leave (property, etc.) to another by one's will; 2) to hand down, to pass on."