BEQUEATH

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

2.
v.

To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill.

3.
v.

To give; to offer; to commit. [Obs.] To whom, with all submission, on my knee I do bequeath my faithful services And true subjection everlastingly. Shak.

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