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Definition of Inherit
1. Verb. Obtain from someone after their death. "I inherited a castle from my French grandparents"
2. Verb. Receive from a predecessor. "The new chairman inherited many problems from the previous chair"
3. Verb. Receive by genetic transmission. "I inherited my good eyesight from my mother"
Definition of Inherit
1. v. t. 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. v. i. To take or hold a possession, property, estate, or rights by inheritance.
Definition of Inherit
1. Verb. (transitive) To take possession of as a right ''(especially in Biblical translations)''. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To receive (property or a title etc), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) (biology) To receive a characteristic from one's ancestors by genetic transmission. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To derive from people or conditions previously in force. ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive) to come into an inheritance. ¹
6. Verb. (computing programming transitive) To derive (existing functionality) from a superclass. ¹
7. Verb. (computing programming transitive) To derive a new class from (a superclass). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Inherit
1. to receive by legal succession [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Inherit
1. 1. 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. Origin: 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inherit
Literary usage of Inherit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England by John Comyns, Anthony Hammond, Thomas Day (1824)
"If a man naturalized was a bastard, he cannot inherit. 2 Rol. ... When he may
inherit, when not. (t) An alien cannot inherit to his father, who is a natural ..."
2. Aristocracy and Evolution: A Study of the Rights, the Origin, and the Social by William Hurrell Mallock (1898)
"They inherit the knowledge of the past only according to the degree to which they
acquire it ; the language of the past only according ..."
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