LEGACIES

Noun

legacies

plural of legacy

Anagrams

• elegiacs

Source: Wiktionary


LEGACY

Leg"a*cy, n.; pl.Legacies. Etym: [L. (assumed) legatia, for legatum, from legare to appoint by last will, to bequeath as a legacy, to depute: cf. OF. legat legacy. See Legate.]

1. A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

2. A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; - - obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like. My legacy and message wherefore I am sent into the world. Tyndale. He came and told his legacy. Chapman. Legacy duty, a tax paid to government on legacies. Wharton.

– Legacy hunter, one who flatters and courts any one for the sake of a legacy.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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