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To disinherit. [Obs.] Dryden.

The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion. Bp. Hall.

To disinherit; to cut off, or detain, from the possession or enjoyment of an inheritance. [Obs.] Spenser.

The act of disinheriting or state of being disinherited; disinheritance. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

One who puts another out of his inheritance.

e constitution and religious liberty. That the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers. Num. xxxvi. 8. To enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Heb. xi. 25.

of taking possession, as of property, or of office; as, the entrance of an heir upon his inheritance, or of a magistrate into office.

A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divide. Mozley & W.

To disinherit. [R.] Huloet.

A disinheriting; disherisor. [R.]

A disinheriting; disherison. [R.] E. Waterhouse.

To pass or be transferred by chance, lot, distribution, inheritance, or otherwise; as, the estate fell to his brother; the kingdom fell into the hands of his rivals.

An estate of inheritance supposed to be held either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and absolutely vested in the owner.

Pertaining to, or involving, fetichism. A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot.

terally, to put out of a family; hence, to portion off, so as to exclude further claim of inheritance; to emancipate (as a with his own consent) from paternal authority. Blackstone.

A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. [Obs.] Blackstone.

Born free; not born in vasssalage; inheriting freedom.

An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.

or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]

Christians, Jews, and Mohammedans. Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance. Ps. ii. 8.