inheritv.

Brit.

/ɪnˈhɛrɪt/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈhɛrət/

Forms: α. Middle English enerite, enheryt, Middle English–1500s enheryte, Middle English–1600s enherite, Middle English–1600s enherit, 1500s enheret. β. Middle English ineryte, inheritte, Middle English–1500s inheryt(e, inheret(t, 1500s Scottish inhereit, 1500s–1600s inherite, 1500s– inherit.

Etymology: < Old French enheriter to put (one) in possession as heir, < en- (en- prefix¹, in- prefix³) + heriter to make (one) heir < late Latin hērēditāre : see herit v. The change of the original sense into that of ‘to receive as heir’ has also taken place in French hériter.

†1. transitive. To make heir, put in possession, cause to inherit (literal and figurative). Obsolete. (Cf. disinherit v.)

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)] > cause to descend by inheritance > cause to inherit

inherit13..

1304 Year-bk. 32 Edw. I (Rolls) 165 Pykenot fut enherité de ces tenementz.]

13.. K. Alis. 7153 Withynne the walles he made houses,..Of his gentil men he enherited [Bodley MS. herited] there, And tho that of the lond ware.

1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxx. 80.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. xv. 6 God..schal enherite [1382 eritagen] hym with euerlastynge name.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxv. 137 To disheryte their naturall lorde and his yssue, to enheryte a stranger.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 85 What doth our cousin lay to Mowbraies charge? It must be great that can inherit [1623 inherite] vs, So much as of a thought of ill in him.

a. transitive. To take or receive (property, esp. real property, or a right, privilege, rank, or title) as the heir of the former possessor (usually an ancestor), at his decease; to get, or come into possession of, by legal descent or succession.

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)] > succeed to

to come to ——eOE

inherita1400

succeed1490

to step into ——1609

to come to ——eOE

eritage1382

heritage1382

inherita1400

herita1533

to fall heir1701

a1400–50 Alexander 588 Lat him as ayre, quen I am erþed, enherit my landis.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 261/2 Inheryte, or receyve in herytage (K. inerytyn).., heredito.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 58/1 [To] allege bastardy..So that he should seme dishabled to inherite the crowne.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres v. ci. sig. Ee2 So much a doe had toyling Fraunce to rend From vs the right so long inherited.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 198 An Estate..he himself had some Prospect of inheriting.

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. vii. 338 I inherit it by the female line.

1899 A. H. Sayce Early Israel vii. 249 The king inherited his priesthood from him.

figurative.1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. vi. 35 All that despair from murdered hope inherits They sought.

b. To derive (a quality or character, physical or mental) from one's progenitors by natural descent; to derive or possess by transmission from parents or ancestry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [verb (transitive)] > inherit

inherit1600

to strain after1888

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 114 The cold blood he did naturally inherite of his father.

a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. ii. 22 Youth, thou bear'st thy Fathers face,..Thy Fathers morall parts Maist thou inherit too.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 203 Such being the Birth of the modern Opera, no Wonder it inherits the Weakness of its Parent.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 238 We find nothing more common..than for children to inherit sometimes even the accidental deformities of their parents.

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 127 Whose taste is inherited by the present sovereign.

1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants II. xii. 1 A variation which is not inherited throws no light on the derivation of species.

c. To receive or have from a predecessor in office. Chiefly figurative.

ΚΠ

1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iv. 101 He that next inherited the tale Half turning to the broken statue, said, ‘Sir Ralph has got your colours.’

1900 N.E.D. at Inherit Mod. The problems which the present administration has inherited from its predecessors.

3. transferred. To come into possession of, as one's right or divinely assigned portion; to receive, obtain, have, or hold as one's portion. (Chiefly in biblical and derived uses: see inheritance n. 4, heir n. 2.)

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (transitive)] > come into possession of by right

inherita1340

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxiv. 14 His sede sall enherite þe erthe.

a1340 R. Rolle Pr. Consc. 869 When a man Sal dighe he sal enherite þan Wormes and nedders.

a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. iv. 14 Thei that holden it [wisdom], schulen enherite lijf.

1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxv. f. xxxvj^v Come ye blessed chyldren of my father, inheret ye the kyngdom prepared for you from the beginnige of the worlde.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. ii. 28 Such delights..shall you this night Inherit at my house.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 83 Gaunt am I for the graue, gaunt as a graue, Whose hollow wombe inherites [1623 inherits] naught but bones.

1611 Bible (King James) Luke xviii. 18 Good master, what shall I doe to inherit eternall life?

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1012 It is not vertue, wisdom, valour, wit,..That womans love can win or long inherit .

1747 C. Wesley Love Divine ii, in Hymns Redemption (ed. 2) 13 Let us all in Thee inherit.

4. To be heir to (a person); to succeed as heir.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > succeed or follow [verb (transitive)] > succeed as heir, to an office, etc.

succeed1387

succeed1503

inherit?1530

?1530 St. German's Dyaloge in Englysshe ix. f. xxiiii That the eldest sonne shall enheryt his father.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.viij^v The auctoritee that thei had inherityng their fathers.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song (rev. ed.) vi, in Poems (new ed.) I. 181 Surely now our household hearths are cold: Our sons inherit us..And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy.

a. absol. or intransitive. To succeed as an heir; to come into or take possession of an inheritance.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > descend by succession [verb (intransitive)] > pass as inheritance > inherit

inherit1533

1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 22 §6 That all the issue..shall be..inheritable and inherite accordyng to the..lawes of this realme.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxii^v The issue female may not enherite accordyng to the lawe Salique.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 174 The King, and all our company else being dround, wee will inherit here.

1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 798 His Issue [were] barred from Inheriting.

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 19 The children by a wife and those by a concubine slave inherit equally, if the latter be acknowledged by the father.

b. figurative †(a) To take possession, take up an abode, dwell (obsolete); (b) To derive its being, or some quality or character, from.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence

wickc897

telda1325

buildc1340

nestlea1382

to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400

to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425

to take one's lodgec1475

reside1490

inhabit1548

to settle one's rest1562

to sit down1579

to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584

to set (up) one's rest1590

nest1591

to set down one's rest1591

roost1593

inherit1600

habituate1603

seat1612

to take up (one's) residencea1626

settle1627

pitch1629

fix1638

locate1652

to marry and settle1718

domesticate1768

domiciliate1815

to hang up one's hat1826

domicile1831

to stick one's stakes1872

homestead1877

to put down roots1882

to hang one's hat1904

localize1930

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)]

arisec950

syeOE

comeOE

riselOE

springc1175

buildc1340

derivec1386

sourdc1386

proceedc1390

becomea1400

to be descended (from, of)1399

bursta1400

to take roota1400

resolve?c1400

sourdre14..

springc1405

descenda1413

sprayc1425

well?a1475

depart1477

issue1481

provene1505

surmount1522

sprout1567

accrue?1576

source1599

dimane1610

move1615

drill1638

emane1656

emanate1756

originate1758

to hail from1841

deduce1866

inherita1890

stem1932

1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. B O where can life celestiall inherit?

a1890 Church Pascal, etc. (1895) 113 If there is a ministry on earth which in any sense inherits from the apostles.

1891 Daily News 10 Feb. 5/1 The music-hall seems beyond redemption. Its traditions are against it; it inherits from the Coal Hole and the Cider Cellars.

Derivatives

inˈherited adj.

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

1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) IV. xci. 127 Men who cherished an inherited hatred against each other.

1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 829 The different species of the same genus agree among one another in a number of inherited characters, and are distinguished only by single constant characters.

inˈheriting n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

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

bequeathed1619

inheriting1622

propagablea1707

pure-bred1810

prepotent1859

pedigree1861

amphigonous1876

dominant1900

codominant1908

autosomal dominant1922

society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > fact of inheriting

heritagea1300

patrimony1484

adeption1548

inheriting1622

1622 E. Waterhouse Declar. State Colony Virginia (title page) That their lawful heyres..may take order for the inheriting of their lands and estates.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 44 How madnesse..should not only prove hereditary, but lurk very many yeares in the inheriting person's body.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	inherit
释义	inheritv. Brit. /ɪnˈhɛrɪt/, U.S. /ᵻnˈhɛrət/ Forms: α. Middle English enerite, enheryt, Middle English–1500s enheryte, Middle English–1600s enherite, Middle English–1600s enherit, 1500s enheret. β. Middle English ineryte, inheritte, Middle English–1500s inheryt(e, inheret(t, 1500s Scottish inhereit, 1500s–1600s inherite, 1500s– inherit. Etymology: < Old French enheriter to put (one) in possession as heir, < en- (en- prefix¹, in- prefix³) + heriter to make (one) heir < late Latin hērēditāre : see herit v. The change of the original sense into that of ‘to receive as heir’ has also taken place in French hériter. †1. transitive. To make heir, put in possession, cause to inherit (literal and figurative). Obsolete. (Cf. disinherit v.) 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)] > cause to descend by inheritance > cause to inherit inherit13.. 1304 Year-bk. 32 Edw. I (Rolls) 165 Pykenot fut enherité de ces tenementz.] 13.. K. Alis. 7153 Withynne the walles he made houses,..Of his gentil men he enherited [Bodley MS. herited] there, And tho that of the lond ware. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xxx. 80. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. xv. 6 God..schal enherite [1382 eritagen] hym with euerlastynge name. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cxv. 137 To disheryte their naturall lorde and his yssue, to enheryte a stranger. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 85 What doth our cousin lay to Mowbraies charge? It must be great that can inherit [1623 inherite] vs, So much as of a thought of ill in him. View more context for this quotation 2. a. transitive. To take or receive (property, esp. real property, or a right, privilege, rank, or title) as the heir of the former possessor (usually an ancestor), at his decease; to get, or come into possession of, by legal descent or succession. 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)] > succeed to to come to ——eOE inherita1400 succeed1490 to step into ——1609 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)] > cause to descend by inheritance > inherit to come to ——eOE eritage1382 heritage1382 inherita1400 herita1533 to fall heir1701 a1400–50 Alexander 588 Lat him as ayre, quen I am erþed, enherit my landis. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 261/2 Inheryte, or receyve in herytage (K. inerytyn).., heredito. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 58/1 [To] allege bastardy..So that he should seme dishabled to inherite the crowne. 1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres v. ci. sig. Ee2 So much a doe had toyling Fraunce to rend From vs the right so long inherited. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 198 An Estate..he himself had some Prospect of inheriting. 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho II. vii. 338 I inherit it by the female line. 1899 A. H. Sayce Early Israel vii. 249 The king inherited his priesthood from him. figurative.1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna ii. vi. 35 All that despair from murdered hope inherits They sought. b. To derive (a quality or character, physical or mental) from one's progenitors by natural descent; to derive or possess by transmission from parents or ancestry. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [verb (transitive)] > inherit inherit1600 to strain after1888 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. ii. 114 The cold blood he did naturally inherite of his father. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. ii. 22 Youth, thou bear'st thy Fathers face,..Thy Fathers morall parts Maist thou inherit too. View more context for this quotation 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 203 Such being the Birth of the modern Opera, no Wonder it inherits the Weakness of its Parent. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 238 We find nothing more common..than for children to inherit sometimes even the accidental deformities of their parents. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 127 Whose taste is inherited by the present sovereign. 1868 C. Darwin Variation Animals & Plants II. xii. 1 A variation which is not inherited throws no light on the derivation of species. c. To receive or have from a predecessor in office. Chiefly figurative. ΚΠ 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) iv. 101 He that next inherited the tale Half turning to the broken statue, said, ‘Sir Ralph has got your colours.’ 1900 N.E.D. at Inherit Mod. The problems which the present administration has inherited from its predecessors. 3. transferred. To come into possession of, as one's right or divinely assigned portion; to receive, obtain, have, or hold as one's portion. (Chiefly in biblical and derived uses: see inheritance n. 4, heir n. 2.) ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [verb (transitive)] > come into possession of by right inherita1340 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxiv. 14 His sede sall enherite þe erthe. a1340 R. Rolle Pr. Consc. 869 When a man Sal dighe he sal enherite þan Wormes and nedders. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. iv. 14 Thei that holden it [wisdom], schulen enherite lijf. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxv. f. xxxvj^v Come ye blessed chyldren of my father, inheret ye the kyngdom prepared for you from the beginnige of the worlde. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. ii. 28 Such delights..shall you this night Inherit at my house. View more context for this quotation 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. i. 83 Gaunt am I for the graue, gaunt as a graue, Whose hollow wombe inherites [1623 inherits] naught but bones. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Luke xviii. 18 Good master, what shall I doe to inherit eternall life? View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1012 It is not vertue, wisdom, valour, wit,..That womans love can win or long inherit . View more context for this quotation 1747 C. Wesley Love Divine ii, in Hymns Redemption (ed. 2) 13 Let us all in Thee inherit. 4. To be heir to (a person); to succeed as heir. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > succeed or follow [verb (transitive)] > succeed as heir, to an office, etc. succeed1387 succeed1503 inherit?1530 ?1530 St. German's Dyaloge in Englysshe ix. f. xxiiii That the eldest sonne shall enheryt his father. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. B.viij^v The auctoritee that thei had inherityng their fathers. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Lotos-eaters: Choric Song (rev. ed.) vi, in Poems (new ed.) I. 181 Surely now our household hearths are cold: Our sons inherit us..And we should come like ghosts to trouble joy. 5. a. absol. or intransitive. To succeed as an heir; to come into or take possession of an inheritance. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > descend by succession [verb (intransitive)] > pass as inheritance > inherit inherit1533 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 22 §6 That all the issue..shall be..inheritable and inherite accordyng to the..lawes of this realme. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxii^v The issue female may not enherite accordyng to the lawe Salique. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 174 The King, and all our company else being dround, wee will inherit here. View more context for this quotation 1700 J. Tyrrell Gen. Hist. Eng. II. 798 His Issue [were] barred from Inheriting. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 19 The children by a wife and those by a concubine slave inherit equally, if the latter be acknowledged by the father. b. figurative †(a) To take possession, take up an abode, dwell (obsolete); (b) To derive its being, or some quality or character, from. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence wickc897 telda1325 buildc1340 nestlea1382 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 to take one's lodgec1475 reside1490 inhabit1548 to settle one's rest1562 to sit down1579 to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584 to set (up) one's rest1590 nest1591 to set down one's rest1591 roost1593 inherit1600 habituate1603 seat1612 to take up (one's) residencea1626 settle1627 pitch1629 fix1638 locate1652 to marry and settle1718 domesticate1768 domiciliate1815 to hang up one's hat1826 domicile1831 to stick one's stakes1872 homestead1877 to put down roots1882 to hang one's hat1904 localize1930 the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > originate, derive, or arise [verb (intransitive)] arisec950 syeOE comeOE riselOE springc1175 buildc1340 derivec1386 sourdc1386 proceedc1390 becomea1400 to be descended (from, of)1399 bursta1400 to take roota1400 resolve?c1400 sourdre14.. springc1405 descenda1413 sprayc1425 well?a1475 depart1477 issue1481 provene1505 surmount1522 sprout1567 accrue?1576 source1599 dimane1610 move1615 drill1638 emane1656 emanate1756 originate1758 to hail from1841 deduce1866 inherita1890 stem1932 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. B O where can life celestiall inherit? a1890 Church Pascal, etc. (1895) 113 If there is a ministry on earth which in any sense inherits from the apostles. 1891 Daily News 10 Feb. 5/1 The music-hall seems beyond redemption. Its traditions are against it; it inherits from the Coal Hole and the Cider Cellars. Derivatives inˈherited adj. 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 1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. (ed. 2) IV. xci. 127 Men who cherished an inherited hatred against each other. 1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 829 The different species of the same genus agree among one another in a number of inherited characters, and are distinguished only by single constant characters. inˈheriting n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > other bequeathed1619 inheriting1622 propagablea1707 pure-bred1810 prepotent1859 pedigree1861 amphigonous1876 dominant1900 codominant1908 autosomal dominant1922 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > fact of inheriting heritagea1300 patrimony1484 adeption1548 inheriting1622 1622 E. Waterhouse Declar. State Colony Virginia (title page) That their lawful heyres..may take order for the inheriting of their lands and estates. 1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 44 How madnesse..should not only prove hereditary, but lurk very many yeares in the inheriting person's body. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.13..
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