单词 | inheritable |
释义 | inheritableadj. 1. Capable of inheriting. a. literal. Entitled to succeed to property, etc. by legal right. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [adjective] inheritable1470 1368 Act 42 Edw. III c. 10 Que les enfantz neez par dela..soient..enheritables de leur heritagee en Engleterre.] 1470 J. Hardyng Chron. cxxiii. v Therle Henry..Deliuered all the castels and citees right To Kyng Wyllyam his brother enheritable. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 26 §2 Persons inheritable to any manours landes..or other hereditamentes. 1732 D. Neal Hist. Puritans I. 76 The marriages..were declared good and valid, and their children inheritable according to law. 1774 S. Hallifax Anal. Rom. Law (1795) 55 In England..upon deficiency of Inheritable Blood, Lands escheat to the King. 1807 G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 307 The daughters were not inheritable to such lands. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. x. 344 The effect of attainder was, as is said, to corrupt the blood so as to render it no longer inheritable. 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 birth inheritable1523 native1578 1523 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 38 Put from the benefite of the lawes of the Realme whereunto they be inheritable. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 731/2 Made inherytable vnto the blesse of heauen. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha iv. xiii. 539 The auncient libertie of the land, whereunto euery free borne man thinketh himselfe inheritable. 2. Capable of being inherited. a. literal. That may or can descend by law to an heir: = heritable adj. 1. 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 > that can or may descendablec1475 heritablec1480 inheritablea1483 descendible1614 a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 74 Till the King's housholds purueyours have taken for the Kinge..with trewe paymentes, according to the Kinges old enheritable prises. 1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. §39 B An estate in fee simple, which is, when a man hath lands or other things inheritable, to him and heires for euer. 1683 G. Hickes Jovian 23 It is the Lex Legum, or great standing Law of this Inheritable Kingdom. 1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 164 That the property of the lands of Bengal is..an inheritable property. 1837 Syd. Smith in Q. Rev. 241 It is clear that the British Crown was in those early days inheritable by females. b. figurative. That may be naturally transmitted from parents or ancestry to offspring: = heritable adj. 2. 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 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Inheritable..2. That may be transmitted from the parent to the child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species i. 12 The number and diversity of inheritable deviations of structure. 1880 A. H. Huth Life & Writings H. T. Buckle I. iii. 180 Buckle..had a strong suspicion that superior intellectual power was inheritable. Derivatives inˈheritableness n. the quality of being inheritable. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > hereditary inheritance1390 heirship1478 heredation1606 hereditance1608 inheritableness1780 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > capability of hereditariness1640 descendibility1765 heredity1773 inheritableness1780 inheritability1784 hereditability1798 descendability1830 heritability1832 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > hereditary transmission > capability of being transmitted inheritableness1893 1780 M. Madan Thelyphthora II. 162 Laws are made for its regulation, to establish the inheritableness of the issue. 1831 Examiner 564/1 The contest against the inheritableness of the peerage arises from a levelling spirit. 1893 H. Spencer in Pop. Sci. Monthly June 171 If any say that inheritableness is limited to those [characters] arising in a certain way, the onus lies on them of proving that those otherwise arising are not inheritable. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1470 |
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