hereditable

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adjective

Capable of being inherited.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

adjectivehereditable (comparative more hereditable, superlative most hereditable)

comparative more hereditable · superlative most hereditable

  1. Capable of being inherited.

    Any Protestant who became a Catholic forfeited his whole hereditable estate to the nearest Protestant heir.

    1913, “Penal Laws”, in Catholic Encyclopedia
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