The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inheritable \In*her"it*a*ble\, a.
Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.
--Blackstone.Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.
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[Cf. OF. enheritable, inheritable.] Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.
By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable.
--Blackstone.The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male.
--Blackstone.Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.
Wiktionary
a. 1 That can be inherited. 2 Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir.
WordNet
adj. that can be inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title" [syn: heritable] [ant: noninheritable]
Usage examples of "inheritable".
In the one case the swarthiness would be inheritable, in the other not.
As far as the great mass of human characters go, they are, in our opinion, due to so many separately inheritable factors that it is not safe to dogmatize about exactly how they will behave in heredity.
But the number and diversity of inheritable deviations of structure, both those of slight and those of considerable physiological importance, is endless.
A large amount of inheritable and diversified variability is favourable, but I believe mere individual differences suffice for the work.
If strange and rare deviations of structure are truly inherited, less strange and commoner deviations may be freely admitted to be inheritable.
The raw materials of evolution are mutations, inheritable changes in the particular nucleotide sequences that make up the hereditary instructions in the DNA molecule.
Large organisms such as human beings average about one mutation per ten gametes-that is, there is a 10 percent chance that any given sperm or egg cell produced will have a new and inheritable change in the genetic instructions that determine the makeup of the next generation.
It was a permanent change, he said, for the ability was inheritable and would be passed on from one generation to the next, and never again, for good or evil, would the human race be blind as it had been in the past.
This limitation was made by parliament, that through the Princess Sophia an inheritable line not only was to be continued in future, but (what they thought very material) that through her it was to be connected with the old stock of inheritance in King James the First, in order that the monarchy might preserve an unbroken unity through all ages and might be preserved (with safety to our religion) in the old approved mode by descent, in which, if our liberties had been once endangered, they had often, through all storms and struggles of prerogative and privilege, been preserved.
We have an inheritable crown, an inheritable peerage, and a House of Commons and a people inheriting privileges, franchises, and liberties from a long line of ancestors.
If he lost his job at Save-Our-Way to be re-Americulturated over several evenings at Fort Benning's Liberty Center, they'd be losing ground in their daily quest for an inheritable estate.
These sophisters substitute a fictitious cause and feigned personages, in whose favor they suppose you engaged whenever you defend the inheritable nature of the crown.