Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bequeath

Bequeath (be*kwēt") , transitive verb

[Old English biquethen, Anglo-Saxon becweean to say, affirm, bequeath; pref. be- + cweean to say, speak. See Quoth.]

1.
To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.
My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. — Shakespeare
2.
To hand down; to transmit.
To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. — Glanvill
3.
To give; to offer; to commit. [Obsolete]
To whom, with all submission, on my knee I do bequeath my faithful services And true subjection everlastingly. — Shakespeare