The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
An organization founded to promote a cause
An institution of learning; a college, especially for technical subjects
The building housing such an institution
To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
To nominate; to appoint.
To begin or initiate (something); to found.
A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent
The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in questions and negation.
To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
To be able to, to have the capacity to.
To habitually do (a given action).
To wish, desire (something).