Obs. Also 6 legace, -asy. [f. prec.]
1. trans. To send as a legate.
1563. Foxe, A. & M., 1373/2. You are legasyd by thautoritie of the Pope.
2. a. To give or leave as a legacy. b. To bequenth a legacy to.
1546. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 126. The reste of all my goodes not beinge legaced nor gyuen.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., Wks. (Grosart), V. 185. Where yet liuing, hee might behold his flesh legacied amongst the foules of the aire.
1623. trans. Favine’s Theat. Hon., IX. vi. 392. Inheritances might be legacied to them.
1643. Sir T. Browne, Relig. Med., II. § 3. My acquired parts must perish with my self, nor can be Legacied among my honoured Friends.
1798. Jane Austen, Northang. Abb. (1833), II. xv. 206. Her intimacy there had made him seriously determined on her being handsomely legacied hereafter.
1886. A. G. Murdoch, Readings, Ser. I. (ed. 2), 29. The ten pounds legacied to … Kate Dalrymple.
