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exheredate, v. Now rare.|ɛksˈhɛrɪdeɪt|
Also 7 exhæredate, 9 Sc. -heridate.
[f. L. exhērēdāt- ppl. stem of exhērēdāre to disinherit, f. ex- (see ex- prefix1) + hērēd-em heir.]
trans. To disinherit. Also fig.
In recent use only in Sc. writers (misspelt). It was never a term of Common Law.
1552Huloet, Exheredate, abominor. [Cf. Augustine in Ps. v, Solent enim abominati dici exheredati.] 1623–6Cockeram, Exheredate, to disherite. 1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 207 Other virtues of equal merit, must not be exheeredated, or become spurious, to advance its legitimation. 1721–1800in Bailey. 1820Scott Abbot xxxvi, ‘Madam,’ replied the youth, ‘though exheridated and disowned, I am yet a Douglas’. 1834M. Napier Mem. Napier of Merchistoun i. 32 The anxiety of Duke Arnold was to exheridate his only son.
Hence exˈheredated ppl. a.
1828–40Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) II. 192 Henry [VI.] the exheridated monarch. |