Hereditary
[hɪ'redɪt(ə)rɪ] or [hə'rɛdə'tɛri]
Definition
(a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
(a.) Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.
Typed by Eugenia
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Ancestral, patrimonial, by inheritance.[2]. Inherited, transmitted (from ancestors).
Typed by Jeanette
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Inherited, ancestral, lineal
ANT:Conferred, acquired, won
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Examples
- The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is a hereditary matter; so in order to give you an idea of the facts, I must go back to the commencement of the affair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Habit is hereditary with plants, as in the period of flowering, in the time of sleep, in the amount of rain requisite for seeds to germinate, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Times are altered at Ostend now; of the Britons who go thither, very few look like lords, or act like those members of our hereditary aristocracy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But how do you know that it is hereditary? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The material of instruction, the method of instruction, and the type of educational institution, will vary with the hereditary endowment, age, and probable soc ial destiny of the child. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To speak plainly, the matter implicates the great House of Ormstein, hereditary kings of Bohemia. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The Brahmins, who had the monopoly of teaching among the Hindus, had all the conceit and slackness of hereditary privilege. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The manufacturer, banker, and captain of industry have practically displaced a hereditary landed gentry as the immediate directors of social affairs. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To this day one main division of the Moslems, the Shiites, maintain the hereditary right of Ali to be Caliph _as an article of faith_! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Trade was Mr. Moore's hereditary calling: the Gérards of Antwerp had been merchants for two centuries back. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But he had no hereditary constitutional craving after such transient escapes from the hauntings of misery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The old man would start at some hereditary feature or tone unconsciously used by the little lad, and fancy that George's father was again before him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But it was not monarchy of the later European type, not hereditary monarchy, which was now installed in Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This was monarchy; if not hereditary monarchy, it was at least electoral life monarchy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Greek democracy was, in fact, a sort of government by a swarm of hereditary barristers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In none of the English colonies is there any hereditary nobility. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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