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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 noble…

The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title. Blackstone.

By inheritance. Sherwood.

The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.

One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.

A heiress. Milman.

Same as Inheritress. Shak.

Joint inheritance.

A coheir.

To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion Adam disinherited his whole posterity! South.

The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.

misuse; to put to a bad use; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert; as, to abuse inherited gold; to make an excessive use of; as, to abuse one's authority. This principle (if one may so abuse the word) shoots rapidly into popularity. Froude.

Property acquired by purchase, gift, or otherwise than by inheritance. Bouvier.

by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house. Wharton. Coke.…

The condition to which a person is born; natural state or position; inherited disposition or tendency. A foe by birth to Troy's unhappy name. Dryden.

The land of one's birth; one's inheritance. [R.] Shak.

endible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born. Lest there be any . . . profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Heb. xii. 16.