About The Word Inheritable
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Inheritable
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What's The Definition Of Inheritable?
[adj] that can be inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Inheritable: ancestral | familial | genetic | hereditary | heritable | inherited | inheriting | monogenic | nee | patrimonial | polygenic | transmissible | transmitted Related Terms | Find terms related to Inheritable: See Also | Inheritable In Webster's Dictionary \In*her"it*a*ble\, a.
1. Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible;
as, an inheritable estate or title. --Blackstone.
2. Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as,
inheritable qualities or infirmities.
3. [Cf. OF. enheritable, inheritable.] Capable of taking by
inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of
succeeding to, as an heir.
By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted
is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer
inheritable. --Blackstone.
The eldest daughter of the king is also alone
inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male.
--Blackstone.
{Inheritable blood}, blood or relationship by which a person
becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit
possessions by inheritance.
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