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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Inheriting & bequeathing
assign
beneficiary
bequeath
bequest
cadger
co-executor
executrix
heir
heir apparent
heiress
heirless
inherit
inheritance
pass something down
patrimony
pond life
pond scum
primogeniture
settle
testate

Examples of bequeathed

bequeathed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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.
This is evident in the frequency with which they bequeathed their capital to their families and founded chaplaincies to benefit their relatives.
This is particularly interesting because, as indicated above, the former bequeathed the concept around which he built a critical career.
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.
That undoubtedly bequeathed a less radicalised atmosphere when the transition came.
That ensures that the ratio of bequeathed wealth to income tends to remain stable, no matter how much income might rise.
What is left to replace the yearly pathos bequeathed from one generation to the next?
Of course, these new cultural practices bequeathed novel ways of classifying individuals and, in turn, implied new structures of action and opportunity.
Such land could be lost to the patrilineage if women married outside the clan and bequeathed the land to their children.
An infinite planning horizon is assumed because fishing gear is usually bequeathed to subsequent generations.
Distinguished men bequeathed their own brains to anatomists, who expressed their gratitude with a dignified publication of the anatomical results.
By contrast, they assiduously noted the names of the six benefactors who bequeathed sums (totalling less than £24) to the overseers.
This wealth will be bequeathed in the year the surviving member of the couple dies, which in terms of probability is expressed in factor 5 of equation (2).
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