| 单词 |
legatee |
| 释义 |
legatee, n.|ˌlɛgəˈtiː| [f. legate v. + -ee1.] A person to whom a legacy has been bequeathed.
1679–88Secr. Serv. Money Chas. & Jas. (Camden) 99 Thomas Hayter, a legatee to John Moorhouse. 1693T. Power in Dryden's Juvenal xii. (1697) 313 The former Legatees are blotted out. 1781Cowper Charity 45 Mammon makes the world his legatee Through fear, not love. 1822Hazlitt Table-t. I. xii. 281 Legacies and fortunes left, on condition that the legatee shall take the name and style of the testator. 1880Muirhead Ulpian xxiv. §20 A legacy cannot be charged on a legatee. Hence † ˌlegaˈtee v. rare—1, trans., to hand over to a legatee, to transfer by will.
1797Stat. Acc. Scotl. XIX. 189 A mortification, legateed by Mr. John Kemp. |

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