All 3 Uses of
bequeath
in
The Idiot
- He was a widower, and had no relations left, excepting the prince's aunt, a poor woman living on charity, who was herself at the point of death from dropsy; but who had time, before she died, to set Salaskin to work to find her nephew, and to make her will bequeathing her newly-acquired fortune to him.†
Chpt 1.16
- As for my skeleton, I bequeath it to the Medical Academy for the benefit of science.†
Chpt 3.7 *
- "Listen, Mr. Terentieff," said Ptitsin, who had bidden the prince good-night, and was now holding out his hand to Hippolyte; "I think you remark in that manuscript of yours, that you bequeath your skeleton to the Academy.†
Chpt 3.7
Definition:
give or pass down -- often upon death in a will