bequeathed
Americanadjective
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(of personal property or money) disposed of by a person’s final will.
The college has received a bequeathed gift of $1 million from one of its alumni.
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handed down or passed on.
The more conservative council members see traditional values as the bequeathed virtues of a preferred past.
verb
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Etymology
Origin of bequeathed
First recorded in 1615–25; bequeath ( def. ) + -ed 2 ( def. ) for the adjective senses; bequeath ( def. ) + -ed 1 ( def. ) for the verb sense
Example Sentences
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Bequeathed to the museum by historian and journalist Richard Collier, the collection was amassed in the 1970s and is comprised of about 1,700 accounts of those who witnessed the pandemic first hand.
From BBC • Sep. 19, 2018
Bequeathed to the gallery by the late Manhattan collector R. Horace Gallatin, Meryon's etchings shared top honors in the show with Gallatin's two other favorite print-makers: Rembrandt and Albrecht Durer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bequeathed by the British, Ghana's judicial system displays all the solemn trappings of the Old Bailey, complete with decorous courtrooms and gowned-and-wigged judges.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lady, thy loveliness hath walked my brain, As if I were thy heritage in sooth, Bequeathed from sires beyond all story's reach.
From A Hidden Life and Other Poems by MacDonald, George
Bequeathed to Philautus sonnes noursed vp with their father in England.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Baldwin, Edward Chauncey
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