Crossword clues for inherit
inherit
- Receive by will?
- Receive by succession
- Get what's coming to you
- Get from a parent
- Gain estate
- Receive willingly?
- Receive an heirloom, perhaps
- Obtain without effort
- Obtain willingly?
- Obtain through will power?
- Obtain genetically
- Not work for, perhaps
- Have through a gene
- Get, as from a will
- Get what's coming?
- Get what was left?
- Get through sheer will?
- Get from an estate
- Get by succession
- Get by bequest
- Get a passing benefit?
- Come into some money, maybe
- Come into later in life
- Be given via will
- "--- the Wind"
- "____ the Wind"
- Get by will?
- Come into, in a way
- Get without effort
- Be willed
- Be a willing participant?
- Get by force of will?
- Receive a title
- Be left
- "___ the Wind," Lawrence and Lee play
- Come into, as money
- Receive a legacy
- Suddenly own
- Gain by will
- Receive through a will
- Receive from an estate
- Receive from a predecessor
- Receive in a will
- Receive as an heir
- Receive by genetic transmission
- Receive as a legacy
- Receive a bequest
- Popular ascetic with no money to come by some wealth
- Benefit from a will
- Be left wearing the lady's kilt regularly
- Receive by will
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inherit \In*her"it\, v. i. To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.
Thou shalt not inherit our father's house.
--Judg. xi.
2.
Inherit \In*her"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inherited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inheriting.] [OE. enheriten to inherit, to give a heritage to, OF. enheriter to appoint as an heir, L. inhereditare; pref. in- in + hereditare to inherit, fr. heres heir. See Heir.]
(Law) 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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To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities, genes, or genetic traits; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.; to inherit hemophilia
Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured . . . with good store of fertile sherris.
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To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
But the meek shall inherit the earth.
--Ps. xxxvii. 11.To bury so much gold under a tree, And never after to inherit it.
--Shak. To put in possession of. [R.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "to make (someone) an heir," from Old French enheriter "make heir, appoint as heir," from Late Latin inhereditare "to appoint as heir," from Latin in- "in" (see in- (2)) + hereditare "to inherit," from heres (genitive heredis) "heir" (see heredity). Sense of "receive inheritance" arose mid-14c.; original sense is retained in disinherit. Related: Inherited; inheriting.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To take possession of as a right ''(especially in Biblical translations)''. 2 (context transitive English) To receive (property or a title etc), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.
WordNet
v. obtain from someone after their death; "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents" [syn: come into]
receive from a predecessor; "The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair"
receive by genetic transmission; "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"
Wikipedia
Inherit may refer to:
- Inheritance, passing on of property after someone's death
- Heredity, passing of genetic traits to offspring
- Inheritance (object-oriented programming), way to compartmentalize and re-use computer code
- Inherit (album), 2008 work by the group Free Kitten
Inherit is the third album by the band Free Kitten, released on May 20th, 2008. It was their first album in over ten years, the last being 1997's Sentimental Education. Dinosaur Jr.'s J Mascis appears on two songs on this album, "Surf's Up", and "Bananas".
Usage examples of "inherit".
Q Factor Aberrants has not previously been observed to lead to aberrancy in the offspring of such alliances, since the aberrant factors do not appear to be inherited to any significant extent.
This would mean, according to our present understanding of heredity, an inherited abnormality in one or more enzyme systems and a metabolism that is therefore disordered in some specific manner.
Would you believe it, when we were children, my father had his own caique, and when his uncle died, we inherited land, the land up at the head of the plateau, where it is sheltered, the best in Agios Georgios!
These tidings were quite important to Mr Wharton as to Sir Alured,--more important to Everett Wharton than to either of them, as he would inherit all after the death of those two old men.
For the next five years you will receive a reasonable monthly allowance either from these same bank trustees or from one Miss Lillian Bede who, upon my death, has been offered the management of Mill House and who will, at the end of five years, inherit the estate should it demonstrably profit under her management.
Miss Bede from anywhere and while your concern for her is noble, remember, even if she does inherit, your mother and aunt would still leave.
What utter folly for any public man whose position is not inherited and cannot be bequeathed to his posterity, to support the edifice of his grandeur on any other basis than the noblest virtue practised for the general good, and to suppose that he can ensure the continuance of his own fortune otherwise than by taking all precautions against sudden whirlwinds which are want to arise in the midst of a calm, and to blow up the storm-clouds I mean the host of enemies.
They certainly knew how to take advantage of the common inherited, dinosaurian features, among which were light, hollow leg-bones, the erect posture of their limbs, bipedality, and the elongate neck vertebrae.
His taste for luxury extended to everything but ministers, for he inherited from his father and kept in office a shady group, neither capable nor honest, who were despised by the nobles because they were of common birth and hated by the bourgeois for their avarice and venality.
You said that Casta has promised the old man an heir, that he has made a prophecy that a boy will come to inherit Zir and lead it to new glory.
All the fierce and lurid passions which he inherited from his nation and his clime, at all times but ill concealed beneath the blandness of craft and the coldness of philosophy, were released in the breast of the Egyptian.
He prepares the way for cosmopolitanism, and though his ambitions may be fulfilled, the earth that he inherits will be grey.
All that Miss Cotland had was the small amount of money she had inherited from her father who had been a doctor in this very part of London.
Now upon our own theory it can only be met by taking it to be due to inherited memory.
A unique gene, coding for a unique enzyme: Cyfer inherited as dogma what actually arose only through recent, bitter debate.