Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One to whom a legacy is bequeathed; a legatee.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a legacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A legatee.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
legatee .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Latin legatarius, from legaturius enjoined by a last will: compare French légataire. See legacy.
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Examples
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From Aimens we cross to Great Britain, and find again the consolations of English speech, the traditions we reverence, the institutions we cherish and the gods we worship and feel, if we do not understand, the silent moving of those mighty forces which make the British Empire the legatary trustee of mankind.
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