bequeath

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To leave money or property to someone in your will after you die.

   She bequeathed her entire art collection to the national museum.

2. 2
   verb

   To pass something down to people who come after you.

   The ancient Greeks bequeathed many ideas to modern philosophy.

From Middle English biquethen, from Old English becweþan (“to say, to speak, to address, exhort, admonish, blame, bequeath, leave by will”), equivalent to be- + quethe. Cognate with Old Frisian biquetha.

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