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Hereditary succession
Answer for the clue "Hereditary succession ", 11 letters:
inheritance
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., enheritaunce "fact of receiving by hereditary succession;" early 15c. as "that which is inherited," from Anglo-French enheritance , Old French enheritaunce , from enheriter (see inherit ). Heritance "act of inheriting" is from mid-15c.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. hereditary succession to a title or an office or property [syn: heritage ] that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner [syn: heritage ] (genetics) attributes acquired via biological ...
Wikipedia
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" Inheritance " is the 162nd episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation , the tenth episode of the seventh season. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the Federation starship ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inheritance \In*her"it*ance\, n. [Cf. OF. enheritance.] The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor ...
Usage examples of inheritance.
As the points of affinity of the bizcacha to Marsupials are believed to be real and not merely adaptive, they are due on my theory to inheritance in common.
The kingdoms of Transoxiana and Persia were the proper field which he labored to cultivate and adorn, as the perpetual inheritance of his family.
I have my inheritance from Lady Agatine Slegin, and he has his earnings from his years as a Minstrel.
Why a top officer of the powerful Bank of Spica should want to quiz Floyt about his inheritance, then try to shoot him and Alacrity, was still a puzzle.
Uncle Ames was forbidden by that same will to give them any, under threat of losing his own inheritance.
Even if they were put aside, that attainder passed against the Duke of Clarence was an insufficient reason to deprive his son of his lawful inheritance.
The farm was in profit, the rents from the village brought in sufficient revenue to see to repairs, and his inheritance from the Basher had left him a wealthy man.
I am much inclined to think, that the right succession or inheritance much depends on those connexions of the imagination, and that the relation to a former proprietor begetting a relation to the object, is the cause why the property is transferred to a man after the death of his kinsman.
Nothing prevents a beneficiary from rejecting his right to an inheritance.
Bondmen and bondmaids, as property, without limitation of time, and transmissible as inheritance to children, might be bought of surrounding nations.
The answer she thus gave was the answer of a conservative bourgeoise, who held that it would be more just if the inheritance should go to an illegitimate scion of the house rather than to a stranger.
They were all creaking floorboards in the cellarage of the brain, inheritances from our eo-human days.
Gabriel to find a wife, and a rich one at that, now that he could not count on the Clyme inheritance.
The cuneiform script was an inheritance from the non-Semitic predecessors of the Semites in Babylonia, and in this script the characters represented words as well as sounds.
I suppose that, all alone, with a baby on the way and no inheritance, she took what she could get, in this case, a job as a waitress in a restaurant in Dingle Town.