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Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

By inheritance; in an hereditary manner. Pope.

r at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

Hindered; obstructed. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

A hindering; a hindrance. [Obs.] Baxier.

Causing hindrance; impeding. "Cumbersome, and impeditive of motion." Bp. Hall.

Uncredited. [Obs.]

Not edited; unpublished; as, an inedited manuscript. T. Warton.

Meditation. [Obs.]

t; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.

The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. Ps. xix. 14.

One who is given to meditation.

Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. -- Med"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Med"i*ta*tive*ness, n.

Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.

A two-winged fly (Ceratitis capitata) with black and white markings, native of the Mediterranean countries, but now widely distributed. Its larva lives in ripening oranges, peaches, and other fruits, causing them to decay and fall.

Inland. Sir T. Browne.

An incorrect or spurious edition. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

nk on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery. With words premeditated thus he said. Dryden.

With premeditation. Burke.