ppl. a. Also 5 unbequethyn, -queithen, 6 -queith. [UN-1 8 and 8 b.] Not bequeathed.

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  α.  1483.  in Somerset Med. Wills (1901), 243. My money and plate that remayneth unbequethyn to be kept by my seid executours.

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1494.  [see UNBESET].

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1521.  in Test. Ebor. (Surtees), VI. 4. The residew of … my goodes unbequeith I freely gif unto Jenett my wif.

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1553.  Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 141. The Resydew of all my goods vnbequeith I gyue to my brother.

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  β.  c. 1525.  Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.), I. 3. I will and beqweth … all the residew of my goodes unbeqwethed unto the mariage of my son.

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1544.  Knaresb. Wills (Surtees), I. 42. I gyffe all my goodes unbequythed to the usse of Richard my sonne.

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a. 1613.  Overbury, Characters (1615), H j b. He croakes like a raven against the death of rich men, and so gets a Legacy vnbequeath’d.

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1618.  in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 253. He hath … given him the residue of his goods unbequeathed.

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1655.  Fuller, Hist. Cambr. (1840), 214. She left … five thousand pounds, besides her goods unbequeathed, for the erection of a College.

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1829.  S. H. Cassan, Lives Eps. Bath & Wells, 224. The residue, unbequeathed, was applied to the Vicars’ Close at Wells.

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1846.  Grote, Greece, II. vi. (1862), II. 475. Conflicting claims at law for the hand of an unbequeathed orphan heiress.

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  fig.  1622.  May, Heir, II. D j. Her Ladies heart doe yet stand free And vnbequeath’d to any.

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