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Inherited   /ɪnhˈɛrətɪd/   Listen
Inherited

adjective
1.
Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity.  Synonyms: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmissible, transmitted.  "Familial traits" , "Genetically transmitted features"


Inherit

verb
(past & past part. inherited; pres. part. inheriting)
1.
Obtain from someone after their death.
2.
Receive from a predecessor.
3.
Receive by genetic transmission.



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"Inherited" Quotes from Famous Books



... that come not till the flood of God's anger is raised, and too deep for them to wade through; 'Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him' (Psa 32:6). Esau AFTERWARDS is fearful: 'For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected; for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with ...
— The Works of John Bunyan • John Bunyan
... more. Now your ships are scattered or sunk in the sea, now the invaders are again on your coasts as in the old dreadful days, burning and slaying, and want is everywhere and fear is in all hearts throughout the land. And the king, your son, who inherited your beautiful face and nought beside except your vices and whatever was least worthy of a king, he too is now taking his pleasure, even as you took yours, in a gay bejewelled dress, with some shameless woman at his ...
— Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn • William Henry Hudson
... leaned over to her neighbor, Monsieur Guerbet, and made one of those apish grimaces which she had inherited from dear mistress, together with her silver, by right of conquest, and twisting her face into a series of them she made him look at Madame Vermut, who was coquetting with the ...
— Sons of the Soil • Honore de Balzac
... censor of all future work; likewise placing Pushkin under the all-powerful Chief of Police Count Benkendorff, from whom Lermontoff later had also so much to suffer. In 1829 Pushkin went to the Caucas and with the Russian army to Erzum. In 1830 he inherited from his father the management of But Boldino, where he finished "Onegin," and three other dramas. In 1831 he was married at Moscow to Natalie Nikolajewa Gontsharowa, whose beauty had for three years held him in her toils. In the same year he was appointed to the foreign ...
— Russian Lyrics • Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi
... very nice,' said Lady Davenant gently. 'It would take that to account for you: such women as Selina are always easily enough accounted for. I didn't mean it was inherited—for that sort of thing skips about. I daresay there was some improper ancestress—except that you Americans ...
— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James


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