About The Word Inheritance
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Inheritance Definition And Meaning |
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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 \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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