Definition of inherit

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Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

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Conquest :: Conquest (n.) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
Hereditable :: Hereditable (a.) Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable.
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.
Heirloom :: Heirloom (n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations..
Nobility :: Nobility (n.) The state of being of high rank or noble birth; patrician dignity; antiquity of family; distinction by rank, station, or title, whether inherited or conferred..
Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities..
Hereditary :: Hereditary (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown..
Disherison :: Disherison (n.) The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion..
Portion :: Portion (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
Fee :: Fee (n.) An estate of inheritance belonging to the owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and simply, without condition attached to the tenure..
Successively :: Successive (a.) Having or giving the right of succeeding to an inheritance; inherited by succession; hereditary; as, a successive title; a successive empire..
Heritable :: Heritable (a.) Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.
Hereditarily :: Hereditarily (adv.) By inheritance; in an hereditary manner.
Inherit :: Inherit (v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance..
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
Freeborn :: Freeborn (a.) Born free; not born in vassalage; inheriting freedom.
Heirdom :: Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To put in possession of.
Breed :: Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..
Descent :: Descent (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity..
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