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bequest

noun
/bɪˈkwɛst/

Etymology

From Middle English biqueste, bequeste (“will, testament, bequest”), from be + -quiste, queste (“saying, utterance, testament, will, legacy”), from Old English *cwist, *cwiss (“saying”) (compare Old English andcwiss, ġecwis, uncwisse, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *kwissiz (“saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say”). Related to Old English andcwiss (“answer, reply”), Old English uncwisse (“dumb, mute”), Middle English bequethen (“to bequeath”). Not related to quest, which is from Latin. More at quoth, bequeath.

  1. derived from *gʷet-✻ — “to say”
  2. derived from *kwissiz✻ — “saying”
  3. derived from *cwist✻
  4. inherited from biqueste

Definitions

  1. The act of bequeathing or leaving by will.

  2. The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased.

  3. That which is left by will

    That which is left by will; a legacy.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. That which has been handed down or transmitted.

      • Yet some odor of religion is still lingering here, the bequest of pious souls, who had grace to enjoy a foretaste of immortal life.

    2. A person's inheritance

      A person's inheritance; an amount of property given by will.

    3. To give as a bequest

      To give as a bequest; bequeath.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bequest. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bequest. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at bequest

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA