legacyn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈlɛɡəsi/, U.S.

/ˈlɛɡəsi/

Forms: Middle English legarie (transmission error), Middle English–1600s legacie, Middle English–1600s legacye, Middle English– legacy, 1500s legaces (plural), 1500s legasey, 1500s–1600s legasie, 1500s–1600s legasy, 1600s leagacie, 1600s legascie, 1600s legashy; also Scottish pre-1700 lecacie, pre-1700 legace, pre-1700 legasse, pre-1700 legasy, pre-1700 legasye, pre-1700 legesie, pre-1700 liggyce.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French legacie; Latin legatia.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman legacie, legacé office or function of a legate (first half of the 14th cent. or earlier; compare Middle French legacie (16th cent.)), bequest (15th cent. or earlier), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin legatia office or authority of a legate (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), jurisdiction of a legate (from 14th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin lēgātus legate n.¹ + -ia -y suffix³; compare -acy suffix. Compare Spanish legacía (15th cent.). With the senses of branch A. II. compare earlier legate n.²

A. n.

†I. Senses relating to a delegate or legate.

a. The function or office of a delegate or deputy. (Cf. embassy n. 1b). Obsolete.

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society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > [noun]

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proxy1440

vicarship1534

deputyship1587

attorneyship1598

vicegerentship1600

vicaragea1631

solicitorship1633

agenting1646

committeeship1648

representation1660

proxyship1674

proxyhood1776

surrogacy1811

assigneeship1829

locum tenency1831

delegateship1838

surrogateship1846

repping1910

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. v. 20 Therfore we ben sett in legacie [L. legatione fungimur]..for Crist.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 133 As I passed by in my legacie to the Soldane of Alcayr.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1346/2 Who..conferred..with Tho. Cromwell to associate hym in that legacie.

b. spec. The dignity or office of a papal legate; a legateship. to send in legacy: to send as legate. †legacy of the cross: see legate n.¹ 1. Obsolete.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > envoy > office of

legacya1387

legation1524

legateship?1556

legaturea1674

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > envoy > entitled to have cross borne before him > office of

legacy of the crossa1387

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 69 Þis Baldewyn had þe office of legacie of þe cros [L. crucis legatione fungens].

c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 111 (MED) Guale..popis legat..By the auctorite of the legacie the which we haue we conferme and with the help of this present writyng we make sure.

1537 M. Throgmorton Let. 20 Aug. (P.R.O. S.P. 1/124) f. 78 The grett desyer I suppose ye haue for trewe knolege off hys mynde & acts in thys Legaci^e.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xx Innocent bishop of Rome had sent in legacye Adryan of Castella.

?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 116 A Strawe q^d my lord of Norffolk for yo^r legacye.

1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 912 Two great Crosses of Syluer, the one of hys Archebyshopricke, the other of hys Legacie.

1630 M. Godwin tr. F. Godwin Ann. Eng. iii. 305 The English Nation for the most part, especially the Londoners, did so hate the name of the Pope of Rome, that his Legacy would be held in contempt among them.

1699 J. Stevens tr. J. de Mariana Gen. Hist. Spain xi. ix. 188 Her Father, by Will, left the half of his City of Valladolid, to Pope Innocent..but I do not find that ever the Pope had possession of this Legacy.

1724 R. Fiddes Life Wolsey Collect. 236 There were no Fires in Smithfield, during his [sc. Wolsey's] Legacy.

2. The message or business committed to a delegate or deputy. Obsolete.

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society > authority > delegated authority > [noun] > a commission given to anyone > to a delegate

legacya1450

delegation1581

a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) l. 583 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 407 (MED) This proude legat of this tirant seith And first purposith in his legarie [perh. read legacie] That I sholde forsake Cristes feith And falle falsly in tapostasie.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxv^v His legacye there perfourmed and all his bagges wele stuffed, he returned agayne to London.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vii. f. 78^v Quicedus and Colmenaris were brought before the king, and declared theyr legacie in his presence.

1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 602 God gave to þame giftis mair large Thair legacie for till discharge.

1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Legacia A legacy, an embassage, a message from a Prince.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vii. 349 He came, and told his Legacie.

1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 113 This Legacy comming to nothing,..both parties prepare to take the Field.

3. A body of people sent on a mission, or as a deputation, to a sovereign, etc. Also: the act of sending such a body. (Cf. embassy n. 3) Obsolete.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > body of

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embassage1601

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mission1626

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > the sending of ambassadors or envoys

ambassage1534

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embassy1611

ambassy1625

ambassadry1880

c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 555 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 166 In þis sammyne tyme com legasy to vaspaciane reuerently.

1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke xiv. 32 Otherwise whiles he is yet farre of, sending a legacie [L. legationem], he asketh those things that belong to peace.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. William of Malmesbury in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 125 Offa by often legacies solicited Charles le maigne the king of France, to be his friend.

II. Senses relating to bequeathing something.

4. The action or an act of bequeathing; = bequest n. 1. Chiefly in by legacy.

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun]

bequestc1300

provingc1330

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bequeathmenta1627

bequeathal1642

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testing1681

testamentationa1797

willing1797

settlement1815

testation1832

devising1868

1485 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. *112/1 His assignacioun maid to the said Dauide in his legacy and testment.

a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 597 in Poems (1981) 130 Quhen he had hard hir greit infirmite, Hir legacie and lamentatioun.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cciii. f. cxiiii Henry than Duke of Burgoyne..bequethed his Dukedome vnto kyng Robert But the Burgonyons withstode that Legacy.

1674 J. Godolphin Orphans Legacy i. x. 16 The Wife being Executrix to another..may not bequeath them by Legacy without making an Executor.

1722 W. Strahan tr. J. Domat Civil Law II. iv. vii. 174/2 If two Horses, one whereof..had been left him by Legacy, should happen to die.

1761 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. III. 414 Either by legacy or purchase, he became master of all that he thought valuable in their studies.

1828 Naval & Mil. Mag. Mar. p. xxxviii Every acquisition by the slave, whether by legacy or otherwise, went to the master.

1875 Victoria Mag. Mar. 455 Any purely personal property coming to a married woman, whether by legacy, gift, or otherwise, passes and belongs to her husband.

1916 Ann. Rep. Amer. Hist. Assoc. 1914 1 296 Walter L. Newberry..became the founder by legacy of the Newberry Library.

1958 W. T. MacCaffrey Exeter, 1540–1640 x. 266 The lands are frequently divided carefully among the various children by legacy.

2000 M. T. Griffin Nero xiii. 200 Properties initially acquired by Augustus as booty and constantly augmented by legacy and confiscation.

a. A sum of money, or a specified article, given to another by will; = bequest n. 2.

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > a bequest or legacy

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questword1792

bequeathing1855

1514 R. Pace Let. to Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 176 To thin-tent they be not deprividde off suche legaces as my late lorde didde bequest unto them.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. v. sig. L^v/2 Thou art left wealthie enough by thy fathers legacie, if that y^e art godly, painful, heedful & honest.

1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes i. f. 14 A Legacie..is a gifte lefte by the deceased, to bee paide or performed by the Executor, or administrator.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 137 Bequeathing it as a rich Legacie Vnto their issue.

a1660 C. Maund in A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 350 (note) I have given Mr. Powell 5li. for a legacie.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 338 A Legacy of Housholdgoods or Furniture.

1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xl. 108 You have paid..his legacy, at the hazard of ruining the estate.

1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 528 It has been stated that a purchaser is bound to see to the payment of legacies.

1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xx. 155 The residue greatly exceeded in value the aggregate amount of all the legacies.

1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington vii. 95 His lack of money will handicap him, unless he can..persuade someone to die and leave him a fat legacy.

1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) v. ii. 559 Part of the legacy my father had left him had been spent on a decorous little Ford.

2014 Harrow Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. A legacy of this size will make a tremendous difference to the hospice.

b. In extended use. A tangible or intangible thing handed down by a predecessor; a long-lasting effect of an event or process.

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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property > anything handed down

legacy1579

heirloom1612

family jewels1735

family silver1838

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 39^v Our Sauiour Christ..left bequeathed vnto vs the Legacie of eternall lyfe.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxix. 78 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 133 His sonnes..Shall find like blisse for legacie bequeathed.

1640 R. Baillie Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Pref. sig. B^v We could not but leave..to you..the legacie of an untimous repentance.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 535 Forbear thy Threats, my Bus'ness is to dye; But first receive this parting Legacy, He said: And straight a whirling Dart he sent.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 166. ¶3 Books are the Legacies that a great Genius leaves to Mankind.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 140 The history of myself, which, I could not die in peace unless I left it as a legacy to the world.

1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxii. 115 Leaving great legacies of thought, Thy spirit should fail from off the globe.

1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 217/1 Revering so deeply their seldom-studied poetic legacy, he at times unwittingly repeated the notes which rang so sweetly in his ears.

1903 J. Buchan Afr. Colony xix. 393 The faults of..[Cecil Rhodes'] methods..did not impair that legacy of daimonic force which he left to his countrymen.

1941 Economist 5 Apr. 436/2 It would be a disaster if wartime concentration were to leave any legacy of peacetime restrictionism.

1962 Listener 18 Oct. 593/2 The legacy of Britain's policy of indirect rule in this Region of Nigeria is clearly visible in the comparatively static nature of these societies.

2014 Oxf. Mail (Nexis) 8 Dec. Pupils at Bampton Primary School had the chance to leave a lasting legacy by planting trees.

c. U.S. (originally College slang). An applicant to a club, university, etc., regarded preferentially because a parent or other relative belonged or belongs to that institution.

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1908 Purple & Gold Mar. 108 We have two legacies coming, besides a legacy in the present Freshman class who unfortunately cannot join this year.

1922 Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega Jan. 164 Thank goodness, I am neither a legacy nor a transfer!

1930 Helena (Montana) Independent 26 Oct. 20 (caption) Fraternity Legacy. Harry the sub freshman is visiting the boys in what he calls the ‘frat house’... Harry enters college next fall.

1950 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) 21 Sept. 4/2 Legacies, freshmen whose relatives have been closely connected with the chapter.

1974 J. van der Zee Greatest Men's Party on Earth xi. 146 Legacies, the sons of members who've done a lot for the Club who get in..are disappointments.

1990 Sociol. of Educ. 63 231 Effect of ‘legacy status’. Children of alumni were over 2½ times as likely to be admitted as those without such a connection.

2002 Philadelphia Oct. 4/2 ‘Being a legacy and having dad donate a million bucks isn't even a guarantee.’ So, how do you get into Penn?

B. adj. (chiefly attributive) originally U.S.

1. Business. Designating a long-established business, company, or industry associated with activities, practices, etc., which have been discontinued or superseded, esp. by digital or online technologies and processes.

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1984 C. W. Hofer et al. Strategic Managem. (ed. 2) ii. 445 The tragedy of the past was that many of our legacy businesses were not responsive to change before they were taken over.

1989 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. 6 Sept. f8/6 The questions we ask of this ground and this air will be for the replanting of the next generation of vineyards... This is a legacy business.

1995 Mergers & Acquisitions (Nexis) July 11 The fear is being felt by the legacy companies... Technology is moving so rapidly and it is so difficult to stay ahead of the technology innovation power curve.

2008 J. Debari et al. in Q. Wang et al. Making Globally Distributed Software Develop. Success 59 If the category of business is legacy..and actual FP per effort is high, then do not use new technology if possible.

2009 J. H. Gittell et al. in P. Belobaba et al. Global Airline Industry xi. 294 New entrant airlines typically enjoy significant labor cost advantages relative to the incumbent or ‘legacy’ airlines.

2014 Writers' & Artists' Yearbk. 2015 (Electronic ed.) [They] believe that what they call ‘legacy’ publishing is under serious threat from selfpublishers.

2. Chiefly Computing. Designating software or hardware which is old or outdated, or has been superseded, but remains in use. Also in extended use.

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1988 R. D. Joyce in M. Oliff Expert Syst. & Intelligent Manuf. 361 These legacy systems are typically found in centrally controlled mainframe computers.

1989 Industry Week 20 Nov. 46 A migration mechanism enabling the automated conversion of legacy databases and application systems to the integration platform.

1993 Computer Weekly 14 Oct. 34/6 Too many IT people ossify with the IT they are comfortable with—they become legacy people, and that's dangerous.

1995 Computerworld 16 Oct. 132/1 Using wrappers on legacy code is like putting lipstick on a pig—it's still ugly.

2001 National Post (Canada) 29 May m16/2 (advt.) HMV..used IBM Global Services to integrate HMV.com with its legacy systems.

2008 comments.gmane.org 16 July There is some code that is too legacy even for the ClassImposteriser to deal with, unfortunately.

2014 Australian (Nexis) 12 Aug. 30 A decision was made to replace the legacy software with a new integrated system.

3. gen. Designating something left over from a previous era but still in active existence.

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1998 Daily Tel. 23 Dec. 22/3 From January 1, customers will be able to choose to pay bills in euros or in the 11 ‘legacy currencies’ such as marks, francs and lire.

2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Mar. 48/2 His job is to prescribe—mainly things the [armed] services won't like at first, including shifting money from old ‘legacy’ weapons to new things.

2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Oct. 34/1 The same story can be told about what Paxton calls ‘legacy fascism’ in the postwar world.

2010 Atlantic Monthly June 47/1 Burdened as they are with these ‘legacy’ print costs, newspapers typically spend about 15 percent of their revenue on..the people who report, analyze, and edit the news.

2014 Guardian 18 Jan. (Guide Suppl.) 13/2 Re-introducing legacy species like wolves.

Compounds

General attributive.

legacy duty n. a tax paid on a legacy.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > estate or inheritance taxes

finec1436

legacy duty1786

probate duty1804

inheritance tax (or taxation)1841

death tax1850

death duty1852

succession duty1853

succession tax1859

testate duty1880

estate duty1889

capital transfer tax1928

1786 J. Trusler London Adviser & Guide 143 Wives, children, and grand-children, pay but half of these legacy duties.

1859 J. Bright Speeches 3 If a man received landed property..as heir-at-law, it paid no legacy duty.

1922 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 30 139 Legacy duty attaches only to property attained under wills or intestacies.

2004 T. Dome Polit. Econ. Public Finance Brit. vii. 163 The legacy duty was imposed in proportion to the value of property.

legacy hunter n. [originally after classical Latin hērēdipeta (see heredipety n.)] a person who is attentive to wealthy or elderly people in the hope of obtaining a legacy.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > of rich old persons

legacy monger1647

legacy hunter1693

1693 T. Power in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xii. Argt. 240 He Exercises his Satyrical Vein upon the Hæredipetæ, or Legacy-Hunters.

1747 London Mag. Jan. 31/1 Crafty and designing Persons, very properly call'd Legacy-Hunters.

1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 286 Her decline was rapid, and her latter days much tormented by legacy-hunters.

1904 S. Dill Rom. Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius 156 It is a curious sign of the times that this great advocate, who already possessed an enormous fortune, was a legacy-hunter of the meanest sort.

2003 L. Watson & P. Watson in Martial Select Epigrams Introd. 7 He portrays himself as preyed upon by a legacy hunter whom he encourages to keep giving him gifts.

legacy hunting n. the activity of a legacy hunter.

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1737 G. Ogle (title) Of legacy-hunting. The fifth satire of the second book of Horace imitated.

1794 C. Smith Wanderings of Warwick 105 To stoop to the pitiful expedient of legacy-hunting.

1890 Gentleman's Mag. May 526 Legacy-hunting by this time in the empire had become a positive profession.

2009 J. M. Carlon Pliny's Women iii. 126 The Roman fixation on wills led to fear of their falsification or manipulation and to the practice of legacy hunting.

legacy monger n. now rare = legacy hunter n.

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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > of rich old persons

legacy hunting1647

legacy monger1647

legacy hunter1693

1647 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 287 Which made Coranus, like a common captator or legacy-monger, court his owne sonne.

1660 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Mores Hominum Table sig. Xxx^v/1 Cossus, a Legacy-monger.

2007 D. Brinkley G. R. Ford x. 147 You could never accuse him of being a legacy monger.

† legacy parole Obsolete rare a will that is delivered orally to witnesses rather than written; a nuncupative bequest.

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society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > a bequest or legacy > made orally

legacy parole1606

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 86 Sundry parcels gave hee besides by legacie parole [L. reliqua legata varie dedit].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	legacy
释义	legacyn.adj. Brit. /ˈlɛɡəsi/, U.S. /ˈlɛɡəsi/ Forms: Middle English legarie (transmission error), Middle English–1600s legacie, Middle English–1600s legacye, Middle English– legacy, 1500s legaces (plural), 1500s legasey, 1500s–1600s legasie, 1500s–1600s legasy, 1600s leagacie, 1600s legascie, 1600s legashy; also Scottish pre-1700 lecacie, pre-1700 legace, pre-1700 legasse, pre-1700 legasy, pre-1700 legasye, pre-1700 legesie, pre-1700 liggyce. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French legacie; Latin legatia. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman legacie, legacé office or function of a legate (first half of the 14th cent. or earlier; compare Middle French legacie (16th cent.)), bequest (15th cent. or earlier), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin legatia office or authority of a legate (frequently from 12th cent. in British sources), jurisdiction of a legate (from 14th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin lēgātus legate n.¹ + -ia -y suffix³; compare -acy suffix. Compare Spanish legacía (15th cent.). With the senses of branch A. II. compare earlier legate n.² A. n. †I. Senses relating to a delegate or legate. 1. a. The function or office of a delegate or deputy. (Cf. embassy n. 1b). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > [noun] legacyc1384 proxy1440 vicarship1534 deputyship1587 attorneyship1598 vicegerentship1600 vicaragea1631 solicitorship1633 agenting1646 committeeship1648 representation1660 proxyship1674 proxyhood1776 surrogacy1811 assigneeship1829 locum tenency1831 delegateship1838 surrogateship1846 repping1910 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 2 Cor. v. 20 Therfore we ben sett in legacie [L. legatione fungimur]..for Crist. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. viii. f. 133 As I passed by in my legacie to the Soldane of Alcayr. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1346/2 Who..conferred..with Tho. Cromwell to associate hym in that legacie. b. spec. The dignity or office of a papal legate; a legateship. to send in legacy: to send as legate. †legacy of the cross: see legate n.¹ 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > envoy > office of legacya1387 legation1524 legateship?1556 legaturea1674 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [noun] > envoy > entitled to have cross borne before him > office of legacy of the crossa1387 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1882) VIII. 69 Þis Baldewyn had þe office of legacie of þe cros [L. crucis legatione fungens]. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 111 (MED) Guale..popis legat..By the auctorite of the legacie the which we haue we conferme and with the help of this present writyng we make sure. 1537 M. Throgmorton Let. 20 Aug. (P.R.O. S.P. 1/124) f. 78 The grett desyer I suppose ye haue for trewe knolege off hys mynde & acts in thys Legaci^e. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xx Innocent bishop of Rome had sent in legacye Adryan of Castella. ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 116 A Strawe q^d my lord of Norffolk for yo^r legacye. 1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 912 Two great Crosses of Syluer, the one of hys Archebyshopricke, the other of hys Legacie. 1630 M. Godwin tr. F. Godwin Ann. Eng. iii. 305 The English Nation for the most part, especially the Londoners, did so hate the name of the Pope of Rome, that his Legacy would be held in contempt among them. 1699 J. Stevens tr. J. de Mariana Gen. Hist. Spain xi. ix. 188 Her Father, by Will, left the half of his City of Valladolid, to Pope Innocent..but I do not find that ever the Pope had possession of this Legacy. 1724 R. Fiddes Life Wolsey Collect. 236 There were no Fires in Smithfield, during his [sc. Wolsey's] Legacy. 2. The message or business committed to a delegate or deputy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > [noun] > a commission given to anyone > to a delegate legacya1450 delegation1581 a1450 (c1435) J. Lydgate Life SS. Edmund & Fremund (Harl.) l. 583 in C. Horstmann Altengl. Legenden (1881) 2nd Ser. 407 (MED) This proude legat of this tirant seith And first purposith in his legarie [perh. read legacie] That I sholde forsake Cristes feith And falle falsly in tapostasie. 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. lxxv^v His legacye there perfourmed and all his bagges wele stuffed, he returned agayne to London. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vii. f. 78^v Quicedus and Colmenaris were brought before the king, and declared theyr legacie in his presence. 1573 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlii. 602 God gave to þame giftis mair large Thair legacie for till discharge. 1599 J. Minsheu Percyvall's Dict. Spanish & Eng. at Legacia A legacy, an embassage, a message from a Prince. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads vii. 349 He came, and told his Legacie. 1654 tr. M. Martini Bellum Tartaricum 113 This Legacy comming to nothing,..both parties prepare to take the Field. 3. A body of people sent on a mission, or as a deputation, to a sovereign, etc. Also: the act of sending such a body. (Cf. embassy n. 3) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > ambassador or envoy > body of ambassade1425 embassade?a1439 legacyc1480 legation1509 ambassage1540 embassage1601 embassy1611 ambassy1620 mission1626 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > the sending of ambassadors or envoys ambassage1534 embassage1539 legacy1598 embassy1611 ambassy1625 ambassadry1880 c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 555 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 166 In þis sammyne tyme com legasy to vaspaciane reuerently. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Luke xiv. 32 Otherwise whiles he is yet farre of, sending a legacie [L. legationem], he asketh those things that belong to peace. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. William of Malmesbury in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 125 Offa by often legacies solicited Charles le maigne the king of France, to be his friend. II. Senses relating to bequeathing something. 4. The action or an act of bequeathing; = bequest n. 1. Chiefly in by legacy. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] bequestc1300 provingc1330 legacy1485 devise1528 bequesting1572 making1621 bequeathmenta1627 bequeathal1642 bequeathing1674 testing1681 testamentationa1797 willing1797 settlement1815 testation1832 devising1868 1485 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 112/1 His assignacioun maid to the said Dauide in his legacy and testment. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid* 597 in Poems (1981) 130 Quhen he had hard hir greit infirmite, Hir legacie and lamentatioun. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. cciii. f. cxiiii Henry than Duke of Burgoyne..bequethed his Dukedome vnto kyng Robert But the Burgonyons withstode that Legacy. 1674 J. Godolphin Orphans Legacy i. x. 16 The Wife being Executrix to another..may not bequeath them by Legacy without making an Executor. 1722 W. Strahan tr. J. Domat Civil Law II. iv. vii. 174/2 If two Horses, one whereof..had been left him by Legacy, should happen to die. 1761 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. III. 414 Either by legacy or purchase, he became master of all that he thought valuable in their studies. 1828 Naval & Mil. Mag. Mar. p. xxxviii Every acquisition by the slave, whether by legacy or otherwise, went to the master. 1875 Victoria Mag. Mar. 455 Any purely personal property coming to a married woman, whether by legacy, gift, or otherwise, passes and belongs to her husband. 1916 Ann. Rep. Amer. Hist. Assoc. 1914 1 296 Walter L. Newberry..became the founder by legacy of the Newberry Library. 1958 W. T. MacCaffrey Exeter, 1540–1640 x. 266 The lands are frequently divided carefully among the various children by legacy. 2000 M. T. Griffin Nero xiii. 200 Properties initially acquired by Augustus as booty and constantly augmented by legacy and confiscation. 5. a. A sum of money, or a specified article, given to another by will; = bequest n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > a bequest or legacy quideOE questc1300 queath worda1425 legate1438 witting1483 bequest1496 legation1503 legacy1514 bequeathmenta1627 questword1792 bequeathing1855 1514 R. Pace Let. to Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 176 To thin-tent they be not deprividde off suche legaces as my late lorde didde bequest unto them. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. v. sig. L^v/2 Thou art left wealthie enough by thy fathers legacie, if that y^e art godly, painful, heedful & honest. 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes i. f. 14 A Legacie..is a gifte lefte by the deceased, to bee paide or performed by the Executor, or administrator. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. ii. 137 Bequeathing it as a rich Legacie Vnto their issue. View more context for this quotation a1660 C. Maund in A. Wood Life & Times (1891) I. 350 (note) I have given Mr. Powell 5li. for a legacie. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 338 A Legacy of Housholdgoods or Furniture. 1770 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xl. 108 You have paid..his legacy, at the hazard of ruining the estate. 1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) I. 528 It has been stated that a purchaser is bound to see to the payment of legacies. 1858 Ld. St. Leonards Handy Bk. Prop. Law xx. 155 The residue greatly exceeded in value the aggregate amount of all the legacies. 1912 ‘Saki’ Unbearable Bassington vii. 95 His lack of money will handicap him, unless he can..persuade someone to die and leave him a fat legacy. 1971 S. Howatch Penmarric (1972) v. ii. 559 Part of the legacy my father had left him had been spent on a decorous little Ford. 2014 Harrow Times (Nexis) 25 Mar. A legacy of this size will make a tremendous difference to the hospice. b. In extended use. A tangible or intangible thing handed down by a predecessor; a long-lasting effect of an event or process. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property > anything handed down legacy1579 heirloom1612 family jewels1735 family silver1838 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 39^v Our Sauiour Christ..left bequeathed vnto vs the Legacie of eternall lyfe. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxix. 78 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 133 His sonnes..Shall find like blisse for legacie bequeathed. 1640 R. Baillie Ladensium Αὐτοκατάκρισις Pref. sig. B^v We could not but leave..to you..the legacie of an untimous repentance. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 535 Forbear thy Threats, my Bus'ness is to dye; But first receive this parting Legacy, He said: And straight a whirling Dart he sent. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 166. ¶3 Books are the Legacies that a great Genius leaves to Mankind. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 140 The history of myself, which, I could not die in peace unless I left it as a legacy to the world. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxii. 115 Leaving great legacies of thought, Thy spirit should fail from off the globe. View more context for this quotation 1884 Cent. Mag. Dec. 217/1 Revering so deeply their seldom-studied poetic legacy, he at times unwittingly repeated the notes which rang so sweetly in his ears. 1903 J. Buchan Afr. Colony xix. 393 The faults of..[Cecil Rhodes'] methods..did not impair that legacy of daimonic force which he left to his countrymen. 1941 Economist 5 Apr. 436/2 It would be a disaster if wartime concentration were to leave any legacy of peacetime restrictionism. 1962 Listener 18 Oct. 593/2 The legacy of Britain's policy of indirect rule in this Region of Nigeria is clearly visible in the comparatively static nature of these societies. 2014 Oxf. Mail (Nexis) 8 Dec. Pupils at Bampton Primary School had the chance to leave a lasting legacy by planting trees. c. U.S. (originally College slang). An applicant to a club, university, etc., regarded preferentially because a parent or other relative belonged or belongs to that institution. ΚΠ 1908 Purple & Gold Mar. 108 We have two legacies coming, besides a legacy in the present Freshman class who unfortunately cannot join this year. 1922 Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega Jan. 164 Thank goodness, I am neither a legacy nor a transfer! 1930 Helena (Montana) Independent 26 Oct. 20 (caption) Fraternity Legacy. Harry the sub freshman is visiting the boys in what he calls the ‘frat house’... Harry enters college next fall. 1950 Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) 21 Sept. 4/2 Legacies, freshmen whose relatives have been closely connected with the chapter. 1974 J. van der Zee Greatest Men's Party on Earth xi. 146 Legacies, the sons of members who've done a lot for the Club who get in..are disappointments. 1990 Sociol. of Educ. 63 231 Effect of ‘legacy status’. Children of alumni were over 2½ times as likely to be admitted as those without such a connection. 2002 Philadelphia Oct. 4/2 ‘Being a legacy and having dad donate a million bucks isn't even a guarantee.’ So, how do you get into Penn? B. adj. (chiefly attributive) originally U.S. 1. Business. Designating a long-established business, company, or industry associated with activities, practices, etc., which have been discontinued or superseded, esp. by digital or online technologies and processes. ΚΠ 1984 C. W. Hofer et al. Strategic Managem. (ed. 2) ii. 445 The tragedy of the past was that many of our legacy businesses were not responsive to change before they were taken over. 1989 Providence (Rhode Island) Jrnl.-Bull. 6 Sept. f8/6 The questions we ask of this ground and this air will be for the replanting of the next generation of vineyards... This is a legacy business. 1995 Mergers & Acquisitions (Nexis) July 11 The fear is being felt by the legacy companies... Technology is moving so rapidly and it is so difficult to stay ahead of the technology innovation power curve. 2008 J. Debari et al. in Q. Wang et al. Making Globally Distributed Software Develop. Success 59 If the category of business is legacy..and actual FP per effort is high, then do not use new technology if possible. 2009 J. H. Gittell et al. in P. Belobaba et al. Global Airline Industry xi. 294 New entrant airlines typically enjoy significant labor cost advantages relative to the incumbent or ‘legacy’ airlines. 2014 Writers' & Artists' Yearbk. 2015 (Electronic ed.) [They] believe that what they call ‘legacy’ publishing is under serious threat from selfpublishers. 2. Chiefly Computing. Designating software or hardware which is old or outdated, or has been superseded, but remains in use. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1988 R. D. Joyce in M. Oliff Expert Syst. & Intelligent Manuf. 361 These legacy systems are typically found in centrally controlled mainframe computers. 1989 Industry Week 20 Nov. 46 A migration mechanism enabling the automated conversion of legacy databases and application systems to the integration platform. 1993 Computer Weekly 14 Oct. 34/6 Too many IT people ossify with the IT they are comfortable with—they become legacy people, and that's dangerous. 1995 Computerworld 16 Oct. 132/1 Using wrappers on legacy code is like putting lipstick on a pig—it's still ugly. 2001 National Post (Canada) 29 May m16/2 (advt.) HMV..used IBM Global Services to integrate HMV.com with its legacy systems. 2008 comments.gmane.org 16 July There is some code that is too legacy even for the ClassImposteriser to deal with, unfortunately. 2014 Australian (Nexis) 12 Aug. 30 A decision was made to replace the legacy software with a new integrated system. 3. gen. Designating something left over from a previous era but still in active existence. ΚΠ 1998 Daily Tel. 23 Dec. 22/3 From January 1, customers will be able to choose to pay bills in euros or in the 11 ‘legacy currencies’ such as marks, francs and lire. 2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Mar. 48/2 His job is to prescribe—mainly things the [armed] services won't like at first, including shifting money from old ‘legacy’ weapons to new things. 2004 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 21 Oct. 34/1 The same story can be told about what Paxton calls ‘legacy fascism’ in the postwar world. 2010 Atlantic Monthly June 47/1 Burdened as they are with these ‘legacy’ print costs, newspapers typically spend about 15 percent of their revenue on..the people who report, analyze, and edit the news. 2014 Guardian 18 Jan. (Guide Suppl.) 13/2 Re-introducing legacy species like wolves. Compounds General attributive. legacy duty n. a tax paid on a legacy. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > types of tax > [noun] > estate or inheritance taxes finec1436 legacy duty1786 probate duty1804 inheritance tax (or taxation)1841 death tax1850 death duty1852 succession duty1853 succession tax1859 testate duty1880 estate duty1889 capital transfer tax1928 1786 J. Trusler London Adviser & Guide 143 Wives, children, and grand-children, pay but half of these legacy duties. 1859 J. Bright Speeches 3 If a man received landed property..as heir-at-law, it paid no legacy duty. 1922 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 30 139 Legacy duty attaches only to property attained under wills or intestacies. 2004 T. Dome Polit. Econ. Public Finance Brit. vii. 163 The legacy duty was imposed in proportion to the value of property. legacy hunter n. [originally after classical Latin hērēdipeta (see heredipety n.)] a person who is attentive to wealthy or elderly people in the hope of obtaining a legacy. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > of rich old persons legacy monger1647 legacy hunter1693 1693 T. Power in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires xii. Argt. 240 He Exercises his Satyrical Vein upon the Hæredipetæ, or Legacy-Hunters. 1747 London Mag. Jan. 31/1 Crafty and designing Persons, very properly call'd Legacy-Hunters. 1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 286 Her decline was rapid, and her latter days much tormented by legacy-hunters. 1904 S. Dill Rom. Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius 156 It is a curious sign of the times that this great advocate, who already possessed an enormous fortune, was a legacy-hunter of the meanest sort. 2003 L. Watson & P. Watson in Martial Select Epigrams Introd. 7 He portrays himself as preyed upon by a legacy hunter whom he encourages to keep giving him gifts. legacy hunting n. the activity of a legacy hunter. ΚΠ 1737 G. Ogle (title) Of legacy-hunting. The fifth satire of the second book of Horace imitated. 1794 C. Smith Wanderings of Warwick 105 To stoop to the pitiful expedient of legacy-hunting. 1890 Gentleman's Mag. May 526 Legacy-hunting by this time in the empire had become a positive profession. 2009 J. M. Carlon Pliny's Women iii. 126 The Roman fixation on wills led to fear of their falsification or manipulation and to the practice of legacy hunting. legacy monger n. now rare = legacy hunter n. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > of rich old persons legacy hunting1647 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer > of rich old persons legacy monger1647 legacy hunter1693 1647 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 287 Which made Coranus, like a common captator or legacy-monger, court his owne sonne. 1660 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Mores Hominum Table sig. Xxx^v/1 Cossus, a Legacy-monger. 2007 D. Brinkley G. R. Ford x. 147 You could never accuse him of being a legacy monger. † legacy parole Obsolete rare a will that is delivered orally to witnesses rather than written; a nuncupative bequest. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > [noun] > a bequest or legacy > made orally legacy parole1606 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 86 Sundry parcels gave hee besides by legacie parole [L. reliqua legata varie dedit]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). legacyv. Brit. /ˈlɛɡəsi/, U.S. /ˈlɛɡəsi/ Forms: see legacy n. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: legacy n. Etymology: < legacy n. 1. a. transitive. To give or leave as a legacy. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > bequeath by will [verb (transitive)] leaveOE bequeath1066 queatha1325 let1340 dowc1374 bequest1394 wit1394 devise1395 give1420 willc1460 test1491 legacy1546 legate1546 league1623 legatee1797 society > law > transfer of property > testamentary disposition > bequeath by will [verb (transitive)] > bequeath by will to legacy1546 1546 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 126 The reste of all my goodes not beinge legaced no^r gyuen. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. O4 Where yet liuing, hee might behold his flesh legacied amongst the foules of the aire. 1623 tr. A. Favyn Theater of Honour & Knight-hood ix. vi. 392 Inheritances might be legacied to them. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §3 My acquired parts must perish with my self, nor can be Legacied among my honoured Friends. View more context for this quotation 1834 L. Cortambert tr. Lang. Flowers 65 She received the crown from the hands of the founder; and legacied it..to the companions of her infancy. 1886 A. G. Murdoch Sc. Readings (ed. 2) 29 The ten pounds legacied to..Kate Dalrymple. 1901 Living Age 9 Nov. 351/1 They [sc. traditional dogmas] are a patrimony which the generations transmit intact because they were legacied to them intact. 1986 Princeton Alumni Weekly 10 Dec. 35/2 Predictably, the on-campus suits legacied to various clubs are no more. 2004 R. Kearney On Paul Ricoeur i. 65 The ‘presumption of truth’ refers to our basic attitude of credit or trust in the propositions of meaning legacied by the past. b. transitive. To bequeath a legacy to. Now rare. ΚΠ 1799 C. Cooke Battleridge II. 75 He had legacied the Ethling in costly jewels, which she delighted in, as adorning her agreeable person. a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) II. xv. 313 Her intimacy there had made him seriously determine on her being handsomely legacied hereafter. View more context for this quotation 1852 Church & State Gaz. 10 Sept. 581/3 We cite an instance in Bromsgrove school richly legacied by Cookes, the founder of Worcester College, Oxford. a1861 D. Gray Luggie (1862) 75 Then each had there A dove-eyed sister pining for him, four Fair ladies legacied with loveliness. 1936 J. Toomer Blue Meridian in New Caravan 640 Nor does it help to know that thus The pioneers and puritans have legacied us. †2. transitive. To send as a legate. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > offices or officials > [verb (transitive)] > send as legate legacy1563 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1373/2 You are legasyd by thautoritie of the Pope. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.c1384v.1546
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