hereditaryadj.n.

Brit.

/hᵻˈrɛdᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S.

/həˈrɛdəˌtɛri/

Forms: late Middle English–1600s hereditarie, late Middle English– hereditary, 1500s hereditarye, 1600s–1700s haereditary; also Scottish pre-1700 hereditaire, pre-1700 hereditar, pre-1700 hereditare.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin hērēditārius.

Etymology: < classical Latin hērēditārius of or connected with inheritance or succession, that is inherited, acquired as though by inheritance, passed down, in post-classical Latin also that receives by inheritance, that inherits (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), (of original sin) inherited (4th cent.), (of a person) holding a position by inheritance (11th cent.), (of disease) transmitted from generation to generation (first half of the 14th cent. in a British source; 1363 in Chauliac), (noun) heir (from 10th cent. in British and continental sources) < hērēditās heredity n. + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French hereditaire, French héréditaire (1495 in sense ‘conferred by legal inheritance‘, 1549 in sense ‘transmitted naturally from generation to generation’), Catalan hereditari (1276), Spanish hereditario (c1250), Portuguese hereditário (1553), Italian ereditario (end of 13th cent. as adjective and noun).The Latin word, like others in the same family, sometimes occurs in spellings in haer- in inscriptions from antiquity, and frequently in post-classical Latin.

A. adj.

a. Biology, Medicine, etc. Of physical and mental characteristics, diseases, instincts, etc.: that are or may be passed naturally from parents to offspring; spec. passed to offspring as a result of the transfer of genetic factors during reproduction; genetically determined. Cf. congenital adj. a.

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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective]

hereditary?a1425

heredital1490

hereditariousa1527

heritable1570

hereditable1652

inherited1797

inborn1816

inheritable1828

germinal1830

germinative1833

genic1894

Mendelizing1909

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 111^v (MED) It is demed bi al men þat þe lepre is þe worst sikenesse & hereditarie [L. hereditarius] and contagious.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 163 The fault which like vnto a hereditarie lepresie in a mans bodie is uncurable.

1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 379 Tempers of the mind and affections became hereditary, and (as we say) runne in a bloud.

1674 Animadversions Medicinal Observ. 4 Such as the Tree is, such is the Fruit. Yet my meaning is not again that if the Patient hath an Hereditary Disease, because the Physician ought to take notice of it himself.

1699 ‘P. Misiatrus’ Honour of Gout 14 I have heard you confess, that yours is an Hereditary Gout.

1746 T. Prior Authentic Narr. Success Tar-water (new ed.) 19/2 Hannah Evans, wife to Harry Evans, mason, cured of an hereditary asthma, under which she laboured for two years.

1826 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 2) II. ix. i. §3. 537 All original or connate peculiarities of body are hereditary.

1833 Destructive 22 June 166/3 (heading) Absurdity of ‘hereditary wisdom’.

1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man II. xxiii. 369 The hereditary instincts of forest life.

1928 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (ed. 4) 176/1 Hereditary symbiosis, the presence of mycobacteria in the tissues, including seeds.

1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ii. 48 The latter [sc. fraternal twins] will have hereditary outfits as different as those of members of the same family born at different times.

1962 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 26 129/1 Hereditary factors in Chlamydomonas which determine streptomycin resistance and dependence.

1996 A. Ghosh Calcutta Chromosome (1997) xxxvii. 244 She was dirt poor and that she probably had hereditary syphilis.

2009 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 7 Jan. 15 Researchers are investigating whether families with a form of hereditary colorectal cancer have an increased risk of breast cancer.

b. gen. Passed on from or left by a precursor; spec. (of an attitude, custom, quality, etc.) identical with or similar to what was possessed by a parent, ancestor, or predecessor, as if inherited.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > originated or derived > from a person's predecessors or hereditary

hereditary?c1450

abstract1486

native1596

traductive1657

extraduce1720

?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3676 (MED) He asked him..What worde he sulde hereditary Leue to his brethir at his last fare.

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes f. 2^v The Turke that most bytter, hereditarie, and olde ennemie of the Christyan name and religion.

1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. i. ix. §9. 68 Neither with Temeritie of rude boldnes let vs breake the Hereditarie Seales, (he meaneth the Doctrine sealed by the Fathers, and left to the posteritie as it were by Heritage).

1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 40 It hath been their hereditarie practise, to stande vpon their garde, and to preuent their enemies.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 64 Branded..by God for..their owne wicked assuming of hereditary holinesse.

1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery Ded. The patronage of Arts being hereditary to your noble Ancestors.

1752 E. Young Brothers i. i Long burnt a fixt hereditary hate, Between the crowns of Macedon and Thrace.

1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Hist. Europe 102/1 The hereditary enemies of the stadtholderian system of government.

1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales 84 All the hereditary pastimes of Old England were transplanted hither.

a1856 H. Miller Cruise of Betsey (1889) ii. xv. 483 His actual beliefs appeared to be very considerably at variance with his hereditary creed.

1909 Midwestern May 18/1 With that innate timidity which is born of hereditary pride she had set herself from childhood to ignore every natural impulse or instinct.

1960 Observer 18 Sept. 26/3 The old frowning hereditary attitudes to sex are heavily derided.

1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory vii. 254 France and Austria found themselves for the first time in alliance without regard to the hereditary rivalry of Bourbon and Hapsburg.

c. Theology. Of sin, guilt, etc.: supposedly innate in all human beings and held to be inherited from Adam. Cf. original sin n. at original adj. and n. Compounds 2.

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society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [adjective] > hereditary

hereditary1577

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. x. sig. Qq.iij^v/2 We should seeme thereby to affirme that sinne is Ex traduce, or hereditarie.

1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 34 This sinne of kind, not personall, But reall, and hereditarie was.

1692 J. Quick Synodicon II. xiv. 473 The whole Nature of Original Sin consisted only in that Corruption which is Hereditary to all Adam's Posterity.

1731 J. Balguy Second Let. to Deist 17 I have nothing to say to the absurd Doctrine of Hereditary Guilt.

1764 Crit. Rev. Nov. 340 The dreams of bigots and enthusiasts about transubstantiation,..imputed righteousness, hereditary sin, &c. &c. are ascribed to the holy Spirit of God.

1821 Presbyterian Mag. Dec. 535/1 Sin is hereditary; it is interwoven in our very nature..and is, therefore, propagated from generation to generation.

1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 658 The controversy between Thomists and Scotists..concerning the exemption of Mary from hereditary sin.

1961 R. Friedmann Hutterite Stud. iii. 96 There can be no ‘hereditary guilt’..for we have the promise of God that ‘the children shall not bear the iniquities of the fathers’.

2009 R. Adelman Return of Repressed iv. 56 (note) Jesus is uniquely inoculated against sin since he was not conceived of the seed of man, and therefore did not receive the hereditary taint of Adam.

a. Of a possession, right, title, etc.: conferred or conferrable by legal inheritance; that has been or may be transmitted according to definite rules of descent; legally passing, on the death of the holder, into the possession of an heir or heirs.

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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adjective] > relating to inheritance > descending by inheritance

hereditary1538

inhereditary1611

inheritary1611

inheritory1612

1538 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Sarcerius Common Places of Script. f. clxxxiii Tholy gost..preserueth & gouerneth her to thobteining of euerlasting life & the hereditary goodes of Christ.

1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. clxvii^v He gat him into his hereditary kyngdome Naples.

1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Cv^v [Henry VI] lost both the new conquired title and ancient hereditarye dominions.

1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 6 [We] haue inherited his foule corruptions, as it were by hereditary right.

1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 114 (note) in Poems There was always some hæreditary Bowl with which they made their Libations to the Gods, and entertained Strangers.

1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 42 All new grants of hereditary offices were prohibited.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 72 Their ancient hereditary domains lay beyond the reach of an invading enemy.

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. vii. 156 An hereditary priesthood..in the family of Aaron.

1920 J. H. Thomas When Labour Rules iv. 47 A king, whilst possessing hereditary privileges, also has hereditary duties.

1971 P. G. Hiebert Konduru ii. 19 The highest rank belongs to the three Brahman castes which have the hereditary rights of providing religious services.

2004 Daily Tel. 5 May 17/4 Working-class people don't distinguish between hereditary and non-hereditary titles and simply regard you as just another posh git.

b. Of a person: holding a position by legal inheritance.See also hereditary peer n. at Compounds.

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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [adjective] > resting on hereditary right > entitled by birth or descent > by descent

inhereditable1503

heritablec1575

hereditary1600

undisinheritablea1631

hereditable1643

1600 J. G. E. Englands Hope sig. C Desmond, that Hereditary Lord.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 98 If he have Right to appoint his Successor, he is no more Elective but Hereditary.

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. b1 That Romulus was no Hereditary Prince.

1749 Universal Mag. July 38/2 The Lord of the manor is hereditary Lord Lieutenant of the isle of Purbeck.

1797 R. Tyler Algerine Captive I. xxvi. 172 Hereditary senators, ignorant and inattentive to the welfare of their country, and unacquainted with the geography of its foreign possessions.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxv. 102 Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?

1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. ix. 561 The great possessors of land were now being organized into an hereditary aristocracy.

1905 A. F. Klein In Land of Strenuous Life xii. 242 He is as powerful as the Czar,—not as a hereditary autocrat, but as the executive of the greatest democracy.

1955 E. C. Tabler Far Interior iv. 112 These magicians were diviners and hereditary priests.

2005 M. K. Washburn Swords of Spirit iii. 67 He also stood in line to become England's hereditary Earl Marshal upon his father's death.

3. Of, relating to, or involving natural or legal inheritance.

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1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast i. iii. f. 21^v That faith..transported as by hereditary succession, the worthy title and style yet remayning in her highnes, of the defendour of the faith.

1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. iv. f. 108^v Bicause he was in deede made heyre of that he had, he went to the Lyonesse and Lybbarde, and there confirmed the testament hereditarie of the Moyle.

1635 P. Harris Exile Exiled vii. 44 Which gift..is apparant to have beene conferred from above, unto two Christian Princes, as it were by an hereditary descent from immemorable times.

1788 World 8 Dec. 3/1 The order of hereditary succession to the throne of these realm, has been established among us, not for the advantage of any individual family,..but for the benefit of the nation.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 30 It was still a line of hereditary descent; still an hereditary descent in the same blood, though an hereditary descent qualified with protestantism.

1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 507 In whatever way the peerage be considered, said the enemies of the hereditary principle, the law of descent will be found to be useless.

1879 R. N. Khory Digest Med. 4 Abnormal structures are the most obvious instances of hereditary transmission.

1953 F. Alexander in C. Kluckhohn & H. A. Murray Personality in Nature, Society & Culture ii. xxvi. 423 Mental diseases, whenever they could not be retraced to infectious origin,..were explained on a hereditary basis.

1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 5/2 If Labour wins the next election, the politics of the hereditary principle will move centre-stage.

4. Mathematics. Of a set: having the property that the successor set of any member is also a member of the set; (of a property of a set or other object) possessed also by all successors or subobjects; inductive. Also: designating such a property.The successor set (x⁺) of a set x is the set formed by the union of x with the set whose sole member is x. E.g. the successor of any given whole number n is the next highest whole number, n + 1.

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1910 A. N. Whitehead & B. Russell Principia Mathematica I. ii. 570 Let us call μ a hereditary class with respect to R if..successors of μ's (with respect to R) are μ's.

1913 B. Russell in Monist 23 483 To explain mathematical induction, let us call by the name ‘hereditary property’ of a number a property which belongs to n + 1 whenever it belongs to n.

1959 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 24 187 The natural numbers are separated from the basic domain of real numbers as the intersection of all hereditary sets containing 1 as an element.

1971 Proc. London Math. Soc. 23 70 Dedekind domains can be characterized as the commutative hereditary integral domains.

1980 K. Kunen Set Theory i. 9 An important feature of our domain of discourse is that every element of an hereditary set is an hereditary set.

2005 Jrnl. Philos. 102 562 Let us define a class x to be a hereditary set if it is a set, if its members are sets, if the members of its members are sets, and so on.

B. n.

†1. A state which has a system of hereditary rule. Obsolete.

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1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques iii. x. 170 Other kingdomes are electiue, as the Empire of Germanie, the kingdome of Polonia..: which states are not ordinarily so assured and so durable, as Hereditaries are.

1624 Briefe Information Affaires Palatinate 20 It [sc. Bohemia] doth not appertaine immediatly vnto the Emperours no more then the Electors,..and many other as well Electiues as hereditaries, appertaine not in propriety vnto the Emperours.

2. A person holding a position, esp. one of authority, by right of inheritance; spec. a hereditary peer in the House of Lords (in later use frequently as distinguished from a life peer). Chiefly in plural. Formerly also occasionally (in plural): †the House of Lords (obsolete).

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > House of Lords

hereditary1712

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > House of Lords

lords1394

Lords' House1548

House of Lords1641

hereditary1836

1712 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1815) XIII. 170 The creation of a great number of officers very burthensome to the estates, magistrates and communities, or the country, some having been made hereditaries.

1836 Radical 13 Mar. 4/1 The debate, or rather debates in the House of Commons, on the question of justice to the Irish, are but a sad augury of its ever passing the ‘Hereditaries’ unemasculated.

1851 Weekly News & Chron. 29 Nov. 679/3 We cannot become lords, and the scions of lords, and so learn the statecraft of the hereditaries.

1933 G. B. Shaw in Where Stands Socialism Today 182 The hereditaries are brought up to exercise their personal power conventionally and leave the rest to their ministers.

1987 Sunday Tel. 15 Feb. When it comes to recruiting hereditaries, however, the Tories inevitably have most of the crop.

1999 Independent (Nexis) 31 Mar. 8 This answered a question asked on Monday in the House of Lords: Lord Lucas, a young hereditary, making a last bid for modernity with a question about e-mail.

2010 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 Mar. 11 Tory hereditary peers will vote for a replacement from among the ranks of hereditaries who do not have a seat in the Lords.

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hereditary countries n. [after German (now hist.) Erblande (see hereditary lands n.)] now historical = hereditary lands n.

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1619 tr. Reasons Bohemia to reiect Archiduke Ferdinand 16 Archduke Ferdinand..at his entrance to the government of his hereditary Countries, was bound by oath to affect rather the loosing of blood, & life, then to agree..about matter of Religion in fauour of the Hereticks.

1708 London Gaz. No. 4455/2 Count Paar, Post-Master of the Hereditary Countries, goes with her..Majesty as far as Holland.

1819 J. M. Duncan tr. F. Schiller Hist. Thirty Years War Germany I. 81 He quitted Bavaria, after a residence of five years, to take upon him the government of his hereditary countries.

1987 L. Frey & M. Frey Societies in Upheaval iii. 67 The discriminatory tariffs levied on Hungarian products imported into the hereditary countries made their products more expensive.

2000 K. Vocelka in O. P. Grell & R. Porter Toleration in Enlightenment Europe x. 200 The Counter-Reformation had been highly successful in the Austrian hereditary countries.

hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia n. Medicine an inherited (autosomal dominant) disorder characterized by the appearance of multiple telangiectases on the skin and mucous membranes, often with other types of vascular malformation, and usually associated with recurrent bleeding.

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1909 F. M. Hanes in Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 20 63 (title) Multiple hereditary telangiectases causing hemorrhage (hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia).

1970 Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica 136 213 (title) Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler's disease) as the cause of gastro-intestinal haemorrhage.

2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 July 59/3 Today Trerotola will treat Jennifer Fisher, a woman in her 40s with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.

hereditary lands n. [after German (now hist.) Erblande, plural of Erbland (1466 in this sense), specific use of Erbland native country, homeland] now historical those countries or provinces which formed the original inheritance of the Habsburg dynasty (which ruled in Austria from 1278 to 1918), and (frequently also) some of those acquired later by the Habsburgs by marriage; (also) any particular subset of these territories (specified contextually).The hereditary lands consisted principally of Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, an area corresponding to most of the modern states of Austria and Slovenia, and part of north-eastern Italy; they are often also taken to have included Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, corresponding to the modern Czech Republic and part of south-western Poland.

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1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles iii. f. clxxxiv The yeare .M.ccccxc. he [sc. Maximilian I] asked agayne and toke possession of his hereditary landes of the duchy of Eastenriche, the whiche Mathy kyng of Hungary had taken in.

1623 W. Traheron & E. Grimeston tr. P. Mexia Imperiall Hist. 761 They required that the hereditary lands of the house of Austria (..in Stiria, Carinthia, Carniola, and other places) should be annexed to the Crowne of Hungary.

1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 64 His eldest daughter, the Princess Maria Theresia, took possession, as well of the collective hereditary lands.

1883 Army & Navy Mag. Aug. 299 In the Austrian hereditary lands, especially in Upper Austria,..the shedding of much blood was required before the old religion could be firmly re-established.

1974 R. A. Kann Hist. Habsburg Empire, 1526–1918 i. 23 Cultural ties between the Hungarian and the hereditary lands did exist to some extent under the reign of Matthias Corvinus.

2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 20 Dec. 56 This monarchy had developed from the Habsburg hereditary lands (mostly modern Austria and Slovenia), which the family had accumulated since 1278.

hereditary monarchy n. monarchy or a form of monarchy in which the sovereign power descends by right of inheritance.

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1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. f. 12^v There hath bin the rarest varieties, that in like number of successions of any hereditary Monarchie hath bin known.

1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 334 The Hereditary Monarchy being in danger..it was in ordinary prudence requisite to apply..the Oath of Allegiance.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. vii. 171 Of the various forms of government,..an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 110 The nation was firmly attached to hereditary monarchy.

1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 706/1 Gustavus Vasa..attempted to convert Sweden into a hereditary monarchy.

2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty xvii. 265 Reformers..will never convince the ‘true-blue’ royalists, faithful to the principle of hereditary monarchy.

hereditary peer n. a member of any of the ranks of the hereditary nobility in Britain or Ireland, esp. one entitled to a seat in the House of Lords (contrasted with life peer n.); cf. peer n. 4a.The House of Lords was originally composed predominantly of hereditary members, but reforms in the 20th cent. have reduced these to a minority.

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1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 162 Praise him ye Monarchs, in Supreme Command... And you Hereditary Peers; Praise him.

1712 A. Boyer Hist. Reign Queen Anne: Year the Tenth 332 It was propos'd, That Her Majesty should create Sixteen Hereditary Peers to represent the Nobility of Scotland in the British Parliament.

1831 Times 29 Oct. 5/2 It [sc. the Reform Bill] had been thrown out by the votes of 199 hereditary peers.

1958 P. A. Bromhead House of Lords & Contemp. Politics ii. 20 Among the hereditary peers (apart from the peers of the blood royal who do not speak or vote in the House) are five ranks.

2001 Daily Tel. 8 Nov. 1/1 All remaining hereditary peers will lose their voting rights and life peers with voting rights will disappear over time.

hereditary peerage n. a peerage held by inheritance, esp. one entitling the holder to a seat in the House of Lords (contrasted with life peerage n.); (also) the body of hereditary peers considered collectively.With French History use cf. peer n. 4b(c).

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1683 R. L'Estrange Observator 21 Nov. An Honourable and Hereditary Peerage.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 463 The difference between a personal and hereditary Peerage made that they [sc. bishops] could not be the judges of the temporal Lords.

1830 W. Wordsworth Let. Aug. (1979) V. 317 I cannot conceive how an hereditary monarchy can exist, without an hereditary Peerage..if the Law of the Napoleon Code compelling equal division of property by will, be not repealed.

1892 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. xxii. 436 Since the successive unions of England and Scotland and of Great Britain and Ireland, an hereditary peerage has not always in practice carried with it a seat in the House of Lords.

1919 E. Bourgeois Hist. Mod. France 1815–1913 I. iv. 146 He had recourse to the abolition of the hereditary peerage and to the principles of Liberalism.

1997 R. Brazier Ministers of Crown xvii. 316 (note) Only three hereditary peerages have been conferred since 1964.

hereditary states n. [compare German Erbstaaten , plural noun (1723 or earlier), and also German Erblande (see hereditary countries n.)] now historical = hereditary lands n.

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1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent iv. 316 He [sc. the Emperor] maketh them his Orators, and Mandataries, for his Imperiall dignitie, Kingdomes, and hereditarie States.

1787 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 77/2 An assignment of eight millions yearly is made, to pay off the debts of the Hereditary States.

1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 89 The emperor was driven out of his hereditary states, and wandered about the other parts of the empire as a fugitive.

1880 F. A. Forster Francis Deák xxii. 189 Deák..was prepared to show that in fighting thus stubbornly for the rights of Hungary he was not endangering the true interests of the Hereditary States.

1914 H. W. Steed & W. A. Phillips Short Hist. Austria-Hungary & Poland xvii. 82 Ferdinand regarded his narrow strip of Hungarian territory as simply a barrier behind which he could better defend the hereditary states.

1987 C. Higgitt tr. D. Carpanetto & G. Ricuperati Italy in Age of Reason xi. 158 Decisions taken in Vienna concerning the hereditary states on the banks of the Danube..were closely related to those that reached the Milanese officials.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	hereditary
释义	hereditaryadj.n. Brit. /hᵻˈrɛdᵻt(ə)ri/, U.S. /həˈrɛdəˌtɛri/ Forms: late Middle English–1600s hereditarie, late Middle English– hereditary, 1500s hereditarye, 1600s–1700s haereditary; also Scottish pre-1700 hereditaire, pre-1700 hereditar, pre-1700 hereditare. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin hērēditārius. Etymology: < classical Latin hērēditārius of or connected with inheritance or succession, that is inherited, acquired as though by inheritance, passed down, in post-classical Latin also that receives by inheritance, that inherits (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), (of original sin) inherited (4th cent.), (of a person) holding a position by inheritance (11th cent.), (of disease) transmitted from generation to generation (first half of the 14th cent. in a British source; 1363 in Chauliac), (noun) heir (from 10th cent. in British and continental sources) < hērēditās heredity n. + -ārius -ary suffix¹. Compare Middle French hereditaire, French héréditaire (1495 in sense ‘conferred by legal inheritance‘, 1549 in sense ‘transmitted naturally from generation to generation’), Catalan hereditari (1276), Spanish hereditario (c1250), Portuguese hereditário (1553), Italian ereditario (end of 13th cent. as adjective and noun).The Latin word, like others in the same family, sometimes occurs in spellings in haer- in inscriptions from antiquity, and frequently in post-classical Latin. A. adj. 1. a. Biology, Medicine, etc. Of physical and mental characteristics, diseases, instincts, etc.: that are or may be passed naturally from parents to offspring; spec. passed to offspring as a result of the transfer of genetic factors during reproduction; genetically determined. Cf. congenital adj. a. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] hereditary?a1425 heredital1490 hereditariousa1527 heritable1570 hereditable1652 inherited1797 inborn1816 inheritable1828 germinal1830 germinative1833 genic1894 Mendelizing1909 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 111^v (MED) It is demed bi al men þat þe lepre is þe worst sikenesse & hereditarie [L. hereditarius] and contagious. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 163 The fault which like vnto a hereditarie lepresie in a mans bodie is uncurable. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 379 Tempers of the mind and affections became hereditary, and (as we say) runne in a bloud. 1674 Animadversions Medicinal Observ. 4 Such as the Tree is, such is the Fruit. Yet my meaning is not again that if the Patient hath an Hereditary Disease, because the Physician ought to take notice of it himself. 1699 ‘P. Misiatrus’ Honour of Gout 14 I have heard you confess, that yours is an Hereditary Gout. 1746 T. Prior Authentic Narr. Success Tar-water (new ed.) 19/2 Hannah Evans, wife to Harry Evans, mason, cured of an hereditary asthma, under which she laboured for two years. 1826 J. C. Prichard Res. Physical Hist. Mankind (ed. 2) II. ix. i. §3. 537 All original or connate peculiarities of body are hereditary. 1833 Destructive 22 June 166/3 (heading) Absurdity of ‘hereditary wisdom’. 1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man II. xxiii. 369 The hereditary instincts of forest life. 1928 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms (ed. 4) 176/1 Hereditary symbiosis, the presence of mycobacteria in the tissues, including seeds. 1941 J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man ii. 48 The latter [sc. fraternal twins] will have hereditary outfits as different as those of members of the same family born at different times. 1962 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 26 129/1 Hereditary factors in Chlamydomonas which determine streptomycin resistance and dependence. 1996 A. Ghosh Calcutta Chromosome (1997) xxxvii. 244 She was dirt poor and that she probably had hereditary syphilis. 2009 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 7 Jan. 15 Researchers are investigating whether families with a form of hereditary colorectal cancer have an increased risk of breast cancer. b. gen. Passed on from or left by a precursor; spec. (of an attitude, custom, quality, etc.) identical with or similar to what was possessed by a parent, ancestor, or predecessor, as if inherited. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adjective] > originated or derived > from a person's predecessors or hereditary hereditary?c1450 abstract1486 native1596 traductive1657 extraduce1720 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) l. 3676 (MED) He asked him..What worde he sulde hereditary Leue to his brethir at his last fare. 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes f. 2^v The Turke that most bytter, hereditarie, and olde ennemie of the Christyan name and religion. 1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. i. ix. §9. 68 Neither with Temeritie of rude boldnes let vs breake the Hereditarie Seales, (he meaneth the Doctrine sealed by the Fathers, and left to the posteritie as it were by Heritage). 1601 R. Johnson tr. G. Botero Trauellers Breuiat 40 It hath been their hereditarie practise, to stande vpon their garde, and to preuent their enemies. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 64 Branded..by God for..their owne wicked assuming of hereditary holinesse. 1647 N. Nye Art of Gunnery Ded. The patronage of Arts being hereditary to your noble Ancestors. 1752 E. Young Brothers i. i Long burnt a fixt hereditary hate, Between the crowns of Macedon and Thrace. 1787 Ann. Reg. 1784–5 Hist. Europe 102/1 The hereditary enemies of the stadtholderian system of government. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales 84 All the hereditary pastimes of Old England were transplanted hither. a1856 H. Miller Cruise of Betsey (1889) ii. xv. 483 His actual beliefs appeared to be very considerably at variance with his hereditary creed. 1909 Midwestern May 18/1 With that innate timidity which is born of hereditary pride she had set herself from childhood to ignore every natural impulse or instinct. 1960 Observer 18 Sept. 26/3 The old frowning hereditary attitudes to sex are heavily derided. 1992 J. M. Kelly Short Hist. Western Legal Theory vii. 254 France and Austria found themselves for the first time in alliance without regard to the hereditary rivalry of Bourbon and Hapsburg. c. Theology. Of sin, guilt, etc.: supposedly innate in all human beings and held to be inherited from Adam. Cf. original sin n. at original adj. and n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > sin > kinds of sin > [adjective] > hereditary hereditary1577 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. x. sig. Qq.iij^v/2 We should seeme thereby to affirme that sinne is Ex traduce, or hereditarie. 1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 34 This sinne of kind, not personall, But reall, and hereditarie was. 1692 J. Quick Synodicon II. xiv. 473 The whole Nature of Original Sin consisted only in that Corruption which is Hereditary to all Adam's Posterity. 1731 J. Balguy Second Let. to Deist 17 I have nothing to say to the absurd Doctrine of Hereditary Guilt. 1764 Crit. Rev. Nov. 340 The dreams of bigots and enthusiasts about transubstantiation,..imputed righteousness, hereditary sin, &c. &c. are ascribed to the holy Spirit of God. 1821 Presbyterian Mag. Dec. 535/1 Sin is hereditary; it is interwoven in our very nature..and is, therefore, propagated from generation to generation. 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 658 The controversy between Thomists and Scotists..concerning the exemption of Mary from hereditary sin. 1961 R. Friedmann Hutterite Stud. iii. 96 There can be no ‘hereditary guilt’..for we have the promise of God that ‘the children shall not bear the iniquities of the fathers’. 2009 R. Adelman Return of Repressed iv. 56 (note) Jesus is uniquely inoculated against sin since he was not conceived of the seed of man, and therefore did not receive the hereditary taint of Adam. 2. a. Of a possession, right, title, etc.: conferred or conferrable by legal inheritance; that has been or may be transmitted according to definite rules of descent; legally passing, on the death of the holder, into the possession of an heir or heirs. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adjective] > relating to inheritance > descending by inheritance hereditary1538 inhereditary1611 inheritary1611 inheritory1612 1538 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Sarcerius Common Places of Script. f. clxxxiii Tholy gost..preserueth & gouerneth her to thobteining of euerlasting life & the hereditary goodes of Christ. 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles f. clxvii^v He gat him into his hereditary kyngdome Naples. 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Cv^v [Henry VI] lost both the new conquired title and ancient hereditarye dominions. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 6 [We] haue inherited his foule corruptions, as it were by hereditary right. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 114 (note) in Poems There was always some hæreditary Bowl with which they made their Libations to the Gods, and entertained Strangers. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. i. 42 All new grants of hereditary offices were prohibited. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iv, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 72 Their ancient hereditary domains lay beyond the reach of an invading enemy. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. vii. 156 An hereditary priesthood..in the family of Aaron. 1920 J. H. Thomas When Labour Rules iv. 47 A king, whilst possessing hereditary privileges, also has hereditary duties. 1971 P. G. Hiebert Konduru ii. 19 The highest rank belongs to the three Brahman castes which have the hereditary rights of providing religious services. 2004 Daily Tel. 5 May 17/4 Working-class people don't distinguish between hereditary and non-hereditary titles and simply regard you as just another posh git. b. Of a person: holding a position by legal inheritance.See also hereditary peer n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [adjective] > resting on hereditary right > entitled by birth or descent > by descent inhereditable1503 heritablec1575 hereditary1600 undisinheritablea1631 hereditable1643 1600 J. G. E. Englands Hope sig. C Desmond, that Hereditary Lord. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xix. 98 If he have Right to appoint his Successor, he is no more Elective but Hereditary. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. b1 That Romulus was no Hereditary Prince. 1749 Universal Mag. July 38/2 The Lord of the manor is hereditary Lord Lieutenant of the isle of Purbeck. 1797 R. Tyler Algerine Captive I. xxvi. 172 Hereditary senators, ignorant and inattentive to the welfare of their country, and unacquainted with the geography of its foreign possessions. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lxxv. 102 Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. ix. 561 The great possessors of land were now being organized into an hereditary aristocracy. 1905 A. F. Klein In Land of Strenuous Life xii. 242 He is as powerful as the Czar,—not as a hereditary autocrat, but as the executive of the greatest democracy. 1955 E. C. Tabler Far Interior iv. 112 These magicians were diviners and hereditary priests. 2005 M. K. Washburn Swords of Spirit iii. 67 He also stood in line to become England's hereditary Earl Marshal upon his father's death. 3. Of, relating to, or involving natural or legal inheritance. ΚΠ 1567 T. Stapleton Counterblast i. iii. f. 21^v That faith..transported as by hereditary succession, the worthy title and style yet remayning in her highnes, of the defendour of the faith. 1570 T. North tr. A. F. Doni Morall Philos. iv. f. 108^v Bicause he was in deede made heyre of that he had, he went to the Lyonesse and Lybbarde, and there confirmed the testament hereditarie of the Moyle. 1635 P. Harris Exile Exiled vii. 44 Which gift..is apparant to have beene conferred from above, unto two Christian Princes, as it were by an hereditary descent from immemorable times. 1788 World 8 Dec. 3/1 The order of hereditary succession to the throne of these realm, has been established among us, not for the advantage of any individual family,..but for the benefit of the nation. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 30 It was still a line of hereditary descent; still an hereditary descent in the same blood, though an hereditary descent qualified with protestantism. View more context for this quotation 1848 W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc Hist. Ten Years I. 507 In whatever way the peerage be considered, said the enemies of the hereditary principle, the law of descent will be found to be useless. 1879 R. N. Khory Digest Med. 4 Abnormal structures are the most obvious instances of hereditary transmission. 1953 F. Alexander in C. Kluckhohn & H. A. Murray Personality in Nature, Society & Culture ii. xxvi. 423 Mental diseases, whenever they could not be retraced to infectious origin,..were explained on a hereditary basis. 1995 New Statesman & Society 24 Nov. 5/2 If Labour wins the next election, the politics of the hereditary principle will move centre-stage. 4. Mathematics. Of a set: having the property that the successor set of any member is also a member of the set; (of a property of a set or other object) possessed also by all successors or subobjects; inductive. Also: designating such a property.The successor set (x⁺) of a set x is the set formed by the union of x with the set whose sole member is x. E.g. the successor of any given whole number n is the next highest whole number, n + 1. ΚΠ 1910 A. N. Whitehead & B. Russell Principia Mathematica I. ii. 570 Let us call μ a hereditary class with respect to R if..successors of μ's (with respect to R) are μ's. 1913 B. Russell in Monist 23 483 To explain mathematical induction, let us call by the name ‘hereditary property’ of a number a property which belongs to n + 1 whenever it belongs to n. 1959 Jrnl. Symbolic Logic 24 187 The natural numbers are separated from the basic domain of real numbers as the intersection of all hereditary sets containing 1 as an element. 1971 Proc. London Math. Soc. 23 70 Dedekind domains can be characterized as the commutative hereditary integral domains. 1980 K. Kunen Set Theory i. 9 An important feature of our domain of discourse is that every element of an hereditary set is an hereditary set. 2005 Jrnl. Philos. 102 562 Let us define a class x to be a hereditary set if it is a set, if its members are sets, if the members of its members are sets, and so on. B. n. †1. A state which has a system of hereditary rule. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1598 I. D. tr. L. Le Roy Aristotles Politiques iii. x. 170 Other kingdomes are electiue, as the Empire of Germanie, the kingdome of Polonia..: which states are not ordinarily so assured and so durable, as Hereditaries are. 1624 Briefe Information Affaires Palatinate 20 It [sc. Bohemia] doth not appertaine immediatly vnto the Emperours no more then the Electors,..and many other as well Electiues as hereditaries, appertaine not in propriety vnto the Emperours. 2. A person holding a position, esp. one of authority, by right of inheritance; spec. a hereditary peer in the House of Lords (in later use frequently as distinguished from a life peer). Chiefly in plural. Formerly also occasionally (in plural): †the House of Lords (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > lord or lady > [noun] > peer or lord of parliament > House of Lords hereditary1712 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > English or British parliament > [noun] > House of Lords lords1394 Lords' House1548 House of Lords1641 hereditary1836 1712 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1815) XIII. 170 The creation of a great number of officers very burthensome to the estates, magistrates and communities, or the country, some having been made hereditaries. 1836 Radical 13 Mar. 4/1 The debate, or rather debates in the House of Commons, on the question of justice to the Irish, are but a sad augury of its ever passing the ‘Hereditaries’ unemasculated. 1851 Weekly News & Chron. 29 Nov. 679/3 We cannot become lords, and the scions of lords, and so learn the statecraft of the hereditaries. 1933 G. B. Shaw in Where Stands Socialism Today 182 The hereditaries are brought up to exercise their personal power conventionally and leave the rest to their ministers. 1987 Sunday Tel. 15 Feb. When it comes to recruiting hereditaries, however, the Tories inevitably have most of the crop. 1999 Independent (Nexis) 31 Mar. 8 This answered a question asked on Monday in the House of Lords: Lord Lucas, a young hereditary, making a last bid for modernity with a question about e-mail. 2010 Scotsman (Nexis) 30 Mar. 11 Tory hereditary peers will vote for a replacement from among the ranks of hereditaries who do not have a seat in the Lords. Compounds hereditary countries n. [after German (now hist.) Erblande (see hereditary lands n.)] now historical = hereditary lands n. ΚΠ 1619 tr. Reasons Bohemia to reiect Archiduke Ferdinand 16 Archduke Ferdinand..at his entrance to the government of his hereditary Countries, was bound by oath to affect rather the loosing of blood, & life, then to agree..about matter of Religion in fauour of the Hereticks. 1708 London Gaz. No. 4455/2 Count Paar, Post-Master of the Hereditary Countries, goes with her..Majesty as far as Holland. 1819 J. M. Duncan tr. F. Schiller Hist. Thirty Years War Germany I. 81 He quitted Bavaria, after a residence of five years, to take upon him the government of his hereditary countries. 1987 L. Frey & M. Frey Societies in Upheaval iii. 67 The discriminatory tariffs levied on Hungarian products imported into the hereditary countries made their products more expensive. 2000 K. Vocelka in O. P. Grell & R. Porter Toleration in Enlightenment Europe x. 200 The Counter-Reformation had been highly successful in the Austrian hereditary countries. hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia n. Medicine an inherited (autosomal dominant) disorder characterized by the appearance of multiple telangiectases on the skin and mucous membranes, often with other types of vascular malformation, and usually associated with recurrent bleeding. ΚΠ 1909 F. M. Hanes in Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp. 20 63 (title) Multiple hereditary telangiectases causing hemorrhage (hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia). 1970 Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica 136 213 (title) Hereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia (Osler's disease) as the cause of gastro-intestinal haemorrhage. 2004 U.S. News & World Rep. 12 July 59/3 Today Trerotola will treat Jennifer Fisher, a woman in her 40s with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia. hereditary lands n. [after German (now hist.) Erblande, plural of Erbland (1466 in this sense), specific use of Erbland native country, homeland] now historical those countries or provinces which formed the original inheritance of the Habsburg dynasty (which ruled in Austria from 1278 to 1918), and (frequently also) some of those acquired later by the Habsburgs by marriage; (also) any particular subset of these territories (specified contextually).The hereditary lands consisted principally of Upper and Lower Austria, Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola, an area corresponding to most of the modern states of Austria and Slovenia, and part of north-eastern Italy; they are often also taken to have included Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia, corresponding to the modern Czech Republic and part of south-western Poland. ΚΠ 1550 W. Lynne tr. J. Carion Thre Bks. Cronicles iii. f. clxxxiv The yeare .M.ccccxc. he [sc. Maximilian I] asked agayne and toke possession of his hereditary landes of the duchy of Eastenriche, the whiche Mathy kyng of Hungary had taken in. 1623 W. Traheron & E. Grimeston tr. P. Mexia Imperiall Hist. 761 They required that the hereditary lands of the house of Austria (..in Stiria, Carinthia, Carniola, and other places) should be annexed to the Crowne of Hungary. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. IV. 64 His eldest daughter, the Princess Maria Theresia, took possession, as well of the collective hereditary lands. 1883 Army & Navy Mag. Aug. 299 In the Austrian hereditary lands, especially in Upper Austria,..the shedding of much blood was required before the old religion could be firmly re-established. 1974 R. A. Kann Hist. Habsburg Empire, 1526–1918 i. 23 Cultural ties between the Hungarian and the hereditary lands did exist to some extent under the reign of Matthias Corvinus. 2006 Daily Mail (Nexis) 20 Dec. 56 This monarchy had developed from the Habsburg hereditary lands (mostly modern Austria and Slovenia), which the family had accumulated since 1278. hereditary monarchy n. monarchy or a form of monarchy in which the sovereign power descends by right of inheritance. ΚΠ 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. f. 12^v There hath bin the rarest varieties, that in like number of successions of any hereditary Monarchie hath bin known. View more context for this quotation 1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. 334 The Hereditary Monarchy being in danger..it was in ordinary prudence requisite to apply..the Oath of Allegiance. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. vii. 171 Of the various forms of government,..an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 110 The nation was firmly attached to hereditary monarchy. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 706/1 Gustavus Vasa..attempted to convert Sweden into a hereditary monarchy. 2002 B. Hoey Her Majesty xvii. 265 Reformers..will never convince the ‘true-blue’ royalists, faithful to the principle of hereditary monarchy. hereditary peer n. a member of any of the ranks of the hereditary nobility in Britain or Ireland, esp. one entitled to a seat in the House of Lords (contrasted with life peer n.); cf. peer n. 4a.The House of Lords was originally composed predominantly of hereditary members, but reforms in the 20th cent. have reduced these to a minority. ΚΠ 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 162 Praise him ye Monarchs, in Supreme Command... And you Hereditary Peers; Praise him. 1712 A. Boyer Hist. Reign Queen Anne: Year the Tenth 332 It was propos'd, That Her Majesty should create Sixteen Hereditary Peers to represent the Nobility of Scotland in the British Parliament. 1831 Times 29 Oct. 5/2 It [sc. the Reform Bill] had been thrown out by the votes of 199 hereditary peers. 1958 P. A. Bromhead House of Lords & Contemp. Politics ii. 20 Among the hereditary peers (apart from the peers of the blood royal who do not speak or vote in the House) are five ranks. 2001 Daily Tel. 8 Nov. 1/1 All remaining hereditary peers will lose their voting rights and life peers with voting rights will disappear over time. hereditary peerage n. a peerage held by inheritance, esp. one entitling the holder to a seat in the House of Lords (contrasted with life peerage n.); (also) the body of hereditary peers considered collectively.With French History use cf. peer n. 4b(c). ΚΠ 1683 R. L'Estrange Observator 21 Nov. An Honourable and Hereditary Peerage. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 463 The difference between a personal and hereditary Peerage made that they [sc. bishops] could not be the judges of the temporal Lords. 1830 W. Wordsworth Let. Aug. (1979) V. 317 I cannot conceive how an hereditary monarchy can exist, without an hereditary Peerage..if the Law of the Napoleon Code compelling equal division of property by will, be not repealed. 1892 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. xxii. 436 Since the successive unions of England and Scotland and of Great Britain and Ireland, an hereditary peerage has not always in practice carried with it a seat in the House of Lords. 1919 E. Bourgeois Hist. Mod. France 1815–1913 I. iv. 146 He had recourse to the abolition of the hereditary peerage and to the principles of Liberalism. 1997 R. Brazier Ministers of Crown xvii. 316 (note) Only three hereditary peerages have been conferred since 1964. hereditary states n. [compare German Erbstaaten , plural noun (1723 or earlier), and also German Erblande (see hereditary countries n.)] now historical = hereditary lands n. ΚΠ 1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent iv. 316 He [sc. the Emperor] maketh them his Orators, and Mandataries, for his Imperiall dignitie, Kingdomes, and hereditarie States. 1787 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 77/2 An assignment of eight millions yearly is made, to pay off the debts of the Hereditary States. 1845 S. Austin tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany (ed. 2) I. 89 The emperor was driven out of his hereditary states, and wandered about the other parts of the empire as a fugitive. 1880 F. A. Forster Francis Deák xxii. 189 Deák..was prepared to show that in fighting thus stubbornly for the rights of Hungary he was not endangering the true interests of the Hereditary States. 1914 H. W. Steed & W. A. Phillips Short Hist. Austria-Hungary & Poland xvii. 82 Ferdinand regarded his narrow strip of Hungarian territory as simply a barrier behind which he could better defend the hereditary states. 1987 C. Higgitt tr. D. Carpanetto & G. Ricuperati Italy in Age of Reason xi. 158 Decisions taken in Vienna concerning the hereditary states on the banks of the Danube..were closely related to those that reached the Milanese officials. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425
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