Definition of inherit

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Inherit (v. i.) To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance..

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Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To put in possession of.
Patrimonially :: Patrimonially (adv.) By inheritance.
Cleronomy :: Cleronomy (n.) Inheritance; heritage.
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..
Birthdom :: Birthdom (n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.
Heirdom :: Heirdom (n.) The state of an heir; succession by inheritance.
Breed :: Breed (n.) A race or variety of men or other animals (or of plants), perpetuating its special or distinctive characteristics by inheritance..
Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities..
Inheritable :: Inheritable (a.) Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir..
Inherit :: 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..
Appendant :: Appendant (n.) A inheritance annexed by prescription to a superior inheritance.
Parage :: Parage (n.) Equality of condition, blood, or dignity; also, equality in the partition of an inheritance..
Exheredation :: Exheredation (n.) A disinheriting; disherisor.
Coheiress :: Coheiress (n.) A female heir who inherits with other heiresses; a joint heiress.
Heir :: Heir (n.) One who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter..
Disheritance :: Disheritance (n.) The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance.
Forisfamiliate :: Forisfamiliate (v. i.) To renounce a legal title to a further share of paternal inheritance.
Coinheritance :: Coinheritance (n.) Joint inheritance.
Inheriting :: Inheriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inheri.
Portion :: Portion (v. t.) To endow with a portion or inheritance.
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