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Heritable adj.

Capable of being inherited or of passing by inheritance; inheritable.

Capable of inheriting or receiving by inheritance. "This son shall be legitimate and heritable."

Heritable rights (Scots Law), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty.

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Etymology of 'Heritable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heritable" Quotes from Famous Books

... earthly 'ne plus ultra' of my religious aspirations, it were superfluous to say: but I may be allowed to express my conviction, that on our recurring to the same ends and objects, (the restoration of a national and circulating property in counterpoise of individual possession, disposable and heritable) though in other forms and by other means perhaps, the decline or progress of this country depends. In the second sense of the words I can sincerely profess, that I love and honour the Church of England, comparatively, beyond ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Words linked to "Heritable" : genetic, patrimonial, familial, monogenic, inherited, noninheritable, hereditary, nee, inheritable, transmissible, ancestral, transmitted, polygenic, inheriting