Invent vs Bequeath - What's the difference?
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To design a new process or mechanism.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
(legal) To give or leave by will; to give by testament.
To hand down; to transmit.
To give; to offer; to commit.
Invent is a related term of bequeath.
As verbs the difference between invent and bequeath
is that invent is to design a new process or mechanism while bequeath is (legal) to give or leave by will; to give by testament.invent
English
Verb
(en verb)- After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
- I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
- We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
- Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].