 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
inherited
adjective: tending to occur among members of a family usually by
heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits";
"genetically transmitted features" [syn: {familial}, {genetic},
{hereditary}, {transmitted}, {transmissible}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inherit \In*her"it\, verb (used with an object) [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, genes, or genetic traits; as, he inherits a
strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.; to
inherit hemophilia
[1913 Webster +PJC]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
inherited \inherited\ adjective (Genetics)
tending to occur among members of a family usually by
heredity; as, an inherited disease.
Syn: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmitted,
transmissible.
[WordNet 1.5]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "inherited":
atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate,
connatural, constitutional, genetic, genic, hereditary,
in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, innate,
instinctive, instinctual, matroclinous, native, native to, natural,
natural to, organic, patrimonial, patroclinous, physical, primal,
temperamental, unacquired
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