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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



... my fellow-student at Goettingen in 1852, fell after heroic services at Battery Wagner in 1863. What the state, what the country lost in the promise of that rare man, this is not the place to rehearse. Scholar, wit, embodiment of all the inherited social graces of what we once called "the better days," delightful companion, devoted and generous friend, he is still in ...
— The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 • Basil L. Gildersleeve
... Certainly, if one has inherited such a privilege, and is independent, one can laugh at the whole world. What did our Nachman Veribivker care about uprisings, the limitations of the Pale, of Circulars? What did Nachman care about the wicked Gentile ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
... not been unmindful of the great trust they had thus inherited from the Ptolemies. The temple of Serapis was universally admitted to be the noblest religious structure in the world, unless perhaps the patriotic Roman excepted that of the Capitoline Jupiter. It was approached by a vast ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper
... would. She was trained to hunt before ever she was given to Papa, and so were her ancestors before her. That is why Doctor and Betsy, who have never been trained to hunt, go wild over the rabbits. They have inherited the taste." ...
— Tattine • Ruth Ogden
... Lord Bromley died at a great age, and it was found that he had left Bromley Towers to their eldest boy, Theodore. To the Duttons was bequeathed a small estate worth three thousand a year. So after all Harry never inherited "The Towers," ...
— Bluebell - A Novel • Mrs. George Croft Huddleston


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