Inheritably
(In*her"it*a*bly), adv. By inheritance. Sherwood.
Inheritance
(In*her"it*ance) n. [Cf. OF. enheritance.]
1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical
qualities.
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.
When the man dies, let the inheritance
Descend unto the daughter.
Shak. 3. A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a
benefaction.
To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away.
1 Pet. i. 4. 4. Possession; ownership; acquisition. "The inheritance of their loves." Shak.
To you th' inheritance belongs by right
Of brother's praise; to you eke 'longs his love.
Spenser. 5. (Biol.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
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.
The word inheritance (used simply) is mostly confined to the title to land and tenements by a descent.
Mozley & W.
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. Inheritor
(In*her"it*or) n. One who inherits; an heir.
Born inheritors of the dignity.
Milton. Inheritress
(In*her"it*ress) n. A heiress. Milman.
Inheritrix
(In*her"it*rix) n. Same as Inheritress. Shak.
Inherse
(In*herse") v. t. [Obs.] See Inhearse.
Inhesion
(In*he"sion) n. [L. inhaesio. See Inhere.] The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.
A. Baxter.
Constant inhesion and habitual abode.
South. Inhiation
(In`hi*a"tion) n. [L. inhiatio, fr. inhiare to gape; pref. in- + hiare to gape.] A gaping after; eager
desire; craving. [R.] Bp. Hall.
Inhibit
(In*hib"it) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inhibited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inhibiting.] [L. inhibitus, p. p. of inhibere; pref.
in- in + habere to have, hold. See Habit.]
