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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Legacy \Leg"a*cy\ (l[e^]g"[.a]*s[y^]), n.; pl {Legacies}
(-s[i^]z). [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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
legacy
n : (law) a gift of personal property by will [syn: {bequest}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
LEGACY, n. A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of
tears.
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