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 sth to sb Picasso bequeathed most of his paintings and sculptures to Spain and France.
bequeath sb sth Her father bequeathed her the family fortune in his will.
That undoubtedly bequeathed a less radicalised atmosphere when the transition came.
During one depression (in 1342) a grocer was able to lend £40 to a knight, and while the horizons were closing, in 1410, another bequeathed £1,000.
This is particularly interesting because, as indicated above, the former bequeathed the concept around which he built a critical career.
Not unnaturally, one of the benefits of ownership was being able to bequeath the home.
For example, cuckoo parents repeatedly select host nests for their offspring, thereby bequeathing modified selection pressures, as well as genes, to their chicks.
Plainly, one's rights over the genes one may bequeath to another individual are not the same as one's rights over one's own genes.
This is evident in the frequency with which they bequeathed their capital to their families and founded chaplaincies to benefit their relatives.
His decision affronted conventional logic, and bequeathed a controversy to be pondered in perpetuity.