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Inheritance

Inheritance Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Inheritance? [n] hereditary succession to a title or an office or property [n] any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge" [n] (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents [n] that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner Synonyms \| Synonyms for Inheritance: hereditary pattern \| heritage \| heritage \| heritage Related Terms \| Find terms related to Inheritance: allele \| allelomorph \| Altmann theory \| attested copy \| bequeathal \| bequest \| birth \| birthright \| borough-English \| character \| chromatid \| chromatin \| chromosome \| codicil \| coheirship \| coparcenary \| De Vries theory \| determinant \| determiner \| devise \| diathesis \| DNA \| endowment \| entail \| eugenics \| factor \| Galtonian theory \| gavelkind \| gene \| genesiology \| genetic code \| genetics \| heirloom \| heirship \| hereditability \| hereditament \| heredity \| heritability \| heritable \| heritage \| heritance \| inborn capacity \| incorporeal hereditament \| inheritability \| law of succession \| legacy \| line of succession \| matrocliny \| Mendelianism \| Mendelism \| mode of succession \| patrimony \| patrocliny \| pharmacogenetics \| postremogeniture \| primogeniture \| probate \| property \| recessive character \| replication \| reversion \| RNA \| succession \| testament \| ultimogeniture \| Verworn theory \| Weismann theory \| Weismannism \| Wiesner theory \| will See Also \| accretion \| acquisition \| ancestry \| attribute \| background \| bequest \| birthright \| birthright \| borough English \| derivation \| devise \| filiation \| gene linkage \| genetic endowment \| heirloom \| heredity \| legacy \| lineage \| linkage \| patrimony \| primogeniture \| transferred possession \| transferred property \| upbringing \| X-linked dominant inheritance \| X-linked recessive inheritance Inheritance In Webster's Dictionary \Inher"itance\, n. [Cf. OF. enheritance.] 1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. 2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent. When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto the daughter. --Shak. 3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. --1 Pet. i. 4. 4. Possession; ownership; acquisition. ``The inheritance of their loves.'' --Shak. To you th' inheritance belongs by right Of brother's praise; to you eke ?longs his love. --Spenser. 5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. 6. (Law) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. --Blackstone. Note: The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent. --Mozley & W. Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely for themselves; their children have a title to part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when death has put an end to their parents' use of it; and this we call inheritance. --Locke.

Inheritance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Inheritance?

[n] hereditary succession to a title or an office or property
[n] any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge"
[n] (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents
[n] that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner

Synonyms | Synonyms for Inheritance: hereditary pattern | heritage | heritage | heritage

Inheritance In Webster's Dictionary

\In*her"it*ance\, n. [Cf. OF. enheritance.]
1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an
   estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.

2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived
   by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a
   possession which passes by descent.

         When the man dies, let the inheritance Descend unto
         the daughter.                         --Shak.

3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one
   received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.

         To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and
         that fadeth not away.                 --1 Pet. i. 4.

4. Possession; ownership; acquisition. ``The inheritance of
   their loves.'' --Shak.

         To you th' inheritance belongs by right Of brother's
         praise; to you eke ?longs his love.   --Spenser.

5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant
   generation.

6. (Law) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his
   heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by
   descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to
   another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to
   an heir in course of law. --Blackstone.

Note: The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined
      to the title to land and tenements by a descent.
      --Mozley & W.

            Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely
            for themselves; their children have a title to
            part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when
            death has put an end to their parents' use of it;
            and this we call inheritance.      --Locke.

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