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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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