0 to arrange for money or property to be given to somebody after your death:
Picasso bequeathed most of his paintings and sculptures to Spain and France.
2 to arrange for your money or property to be given to someone after your death:
bequeath sb sth Her father bequeathed her the family fortune in his will.
bequeath sth to sb Picasso bequeathed most of his paintings and sculptures to Spain and France.
In the case of a perfect annuity, agents annuitise all their wealth and bequeath nothing to their heirs.
Naturally parents wished to bequeath the household headship to those with whom they had blood ties, even if it were a daughter.
Naturally, parents would have wished to bequeath property to their own children, whether they were male or female.
She specified that after her death her daughter could bequeath the rooms to whomever she preferred.
All three were bequeathed everything they brought into the marriage.
It is the overall nature of the legacy being bequeathed to a newer generation of practitioners in urban history that matters.
Some sons had to pay for the land they received from parents, and many sons were not bequeathed land.
His decision affronted conventional logic, and bequeathed a controversy to be pondered in perpetuity.