heriotable

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adjective

Subject to the payment of a heriot.

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Meanings

adjectiveheriotable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSubject to the payment of a heriot.

    The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.

    1777, Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland

Origin

From heriot + -able.

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APA

heriotable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heriotable

MLA

“heriotable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heriotable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “heriotable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/heriotable.

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