0 present participle of bequeath
1 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.
Because at least units of income must be consumed to induce parental transfers, is interpreted as the fixed cost of bequeathing.
For example, cuckoo parents repeatedly select host nests for their offspring, thereby bequeathing modified selection pressures, as well as genes, to their chicks.
Ownership may be a status, but acquiring property is something that we do, as are selling, transferring, managing, or bequeathing.
The other major preoccupation of testators was the bequeathing of favourite saints to preferred heirs.
First, the nuns' relatives followed the widespread practice of acting as patrons of the convent by offering and bequeathing gifts (including money), commissioning artworks and paying for building work.
Left to themselves, they will be the victims of their uncontrolled fertility, bequeathing problems in many ways incapable of solution to the children they cannot look after.
We are also bequeathing a railway which runs at a loss and a port which runs at a loss.
I may well end up bequeathing those books outside this country.
