At the bequest of (somebody)

[jiho]

Hi guys!
I have read this expression several times: "to do something at the bequest of somebody else".
I know what a bequest is (legacy, inheritance), but I am not sure of the meaning of the full sentence. Maybe I am cofusing it with "doing something at the request of somebody" (because they ask you to do it).

Could it mean that you are doing something with someone else's help (their bequest)?

Thanks a lot!

 

[emsr2d2]

I think you are mixing up "request" and "behest". The word "bequest" has a completely different meaning.

If you have read "to do something at the bequest of somebody else", the writer made a mistake. They should have used "at the request of" or "at the behest of".

 

[jiho]

Ok, I see.

Honestly, this was just what I thought at first, but after getting more than 150,000 results for "at the bequest of" in Google and checking that some of those results were published books, well, i thought I was wrong.

Thank You so much again!

 

[Tdol]

You can have at the behest of someone.

 

[emsr2d2]

You can have at the behest of someone.

As I suggested in post #2. ;-)