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Inheritable adj.

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.

Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.

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." "The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male."

Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.

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Etymology of 'Inheritable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inheritable" Quotes from Famous Books

... half-breed, and among the negroes there is no term so expressive of the contempt of that race, as that applied by them to a mulatto. The present condition of Mexico affords a striking exemplification of this law of reversion. The inheritable characteristics or variations, produced from an infusion of Spanish blood, are rapidly disappearing—the native blood whipping out the European. The potency is in the inferior blood, simply because it is the predominating one. The result has been no ...

— Life: Its True Genesis • R. W. Wright

... high-steppers in their showy harness flung along as brazenly as before. He did not care. He had learned to since. Age is instructive. It teaches that though a man defy the world, he cannot ignore it. But tastes are inheritable. Monty Paliser came in for a few, but not for the four-in-hand. Less vigorous than his father, though perhaps more subtle, ...

— The Paliser case • Edgar Saltus

... one of them is actually inheritable, and that one is transmitted relatively seldom. But among psychic characters one finds that practically all are inheritable. For example, stupidity, credulity, avarice, pecksniffery, lack of imagination, hatred of beauty, meanness, poltroonry, petty brutality, smallness of soul.... I here ...

— Damn! - A Book of Calumny • Henry Louis Mencken

Words linked to "Inheritable" : nee, inheriting, genetic, heritable, patrimonial, monogenic, familial, transmissible, inherited, ancestral, polygenic, hereditary, noninheritable