 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
legacy
noun: (law) a gift of personal property by will [syn: {bequest}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Legacy \Leg"a*cy\ (l[e^]g"[.a]*s[y^]), noun; 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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
60 Moby Thesaurus words for "legacy":
attested copy, bequeathal, bequest, birthright, borough-English,
by-product, codicil, coheirship, consequence, consequent,
coparcenary, corollary, derivation, derivative, development,
devise, distillate, effect, entail, event, eventuality,
eventuation, fruit, gavelkind, harvest, heirloom, heirship,
hereditament, heritable, heritage, heritance,
incorporeal hereditament, inheritance, issue, law of succession,
line of succession, logical outcome, mode of succession, offshoot,
offspring, outcome, outgrowth, patrimony, postremogeniture,
precipitate, primogeniture, probate, product, result, resultant,
reversion, sequel, sequela, sequence, sequent, succession,
testament, ultimogeniture, upshot, will
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
LEGACY, noun A gift from one who is legging it out of this vale of
tears.
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