exheredatev.
/ɛksˈhɛrɪdeɪt/ Now rare.
transitive. To disinherit. Also figurative.In later use chiefly in Scottish writers. It was never a term of Common Law.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > disinherit
disheritc1290
disheritc1330
disheriss1489
disinherita1500
exheredate1552
to strike off with a shilling1597
disheir1607
disherison1654
to cut off with a shilling1834
to cut out1891
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Exheredate, abominor. [Cf. Augustine in Ps. v, Solent enim abominati dici exheredati.]
1623–6 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Exheredate, to disherite.
1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 207 Other virtues of equal merit, must not be exheeredated, or become spurious, to advance its legitimation.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1820 W. Scott Abbot III. ix. 291 ‘Madam,’ replied the youth, ‘though exheridated and disowned, I am yet a Douglas.’
1834 M. Napier Mem. Napier of Merchistoun i. 32 The anxiety of Duke Arnold was to exheridate his only son.
Derivatives
exˈheredated adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adjective] > not having an inheritance > disinherited
disheritc1330
disherited1613
disinherited1635
disinheritated1654
exheredated1831
1831 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. IV. ii. 194 Henry [VI] the exheridated monarch.
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