Inherit

v. i. To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt not inherit our father's house. Judg. xi. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. OF. enheritable, inheritable. ] Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. [ 1913 Webster ]

By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By inheritance. Sherwood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. enheritance. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the man dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction. [ 1913 Webster ]

To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away. 1 Pet. i. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Possession; ownership; acquisition. “The inheritance of their loves.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

To you th' inheritance belongs by right
Of brother's praise; to you eke 'longs his love. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men are not proprietors of what they have, merely for themselves; their children have a title to part of it which comes to be wholly theirs when death has put an end to their parents' use of it; and this we call inheritance. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. (Genetics) tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; as, an inherited disease.
Syn. -- familial, genetic, hereditary, transmitted, transmissible. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. capable of inheriting by law. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who inherits; an heir. [ 1913 Webster ]

Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]