polarity is an inherent quality of the magnet; the inherent right of men to life, liberty, and protection. "A
most inherent baseness." Shak.
The sore disease which seems inherent in civilization.
Southey. Syn. — Innate; inborn; native; natural; inbred; inwrought; inseparable; essential; indispensable.
Inherently
(In*her"ent*ly), adv. By inherence; inseparably.
Matter hath inherently and essentially such an internal energy.
Bentley. Inherit
(In*her"it) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inherited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inheriting.] [OE. enheriten to inherit,
to give a heritage to, OF. enheriter to appoint as an heir, L. inhereditare; pref. in- in + hereditare to
inherit, fr. heres heir. See Heir.]
1. (Law) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an
ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law
from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son
of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
2. To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical
qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.
Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured . . .
with good store of fertile sherris.
Shak. 3. To come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy as a possession.
But the meek shall inherit the earth.
Ps. xxxvii. 11.
To bury so much gold under a tree,
And never after to inherit it.
Shak. 4. To put in possession of. [R.] Shak.
Inherit
(In*her"it) v. i. To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.
Thou shalt not inherit our father's house.
Judg. xi. 2. Inheritability
(In*her`it*a*bil"i*ty) n. The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
Inheritable
(In*her"it*a*ble) a.
1. Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone.
2. Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.
3. [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.
