herit

present singular third person herits · participle present heriting · participle past herited · past herited

1. raretransitiveSynonym of inherit.

   He doth from duſt the weakling raiſe, / From dunghill lifts the needy-one: / With Princes them to ſeat in praiſe, / And make-them-herit Glory’s throne: […]

   1649, Francis Roberts, “I. Samuel”, in Clavis Bibliorum. The Key of the Bible, Unlocking the Richest Treasury of the Holy Scriptures. […], 2nd edition, London: […] T. R. and E. M. for George Calvert, […], →OCLC, chapter 2, verse 8, page 155

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   Reaſon holdeth confidence to argue thy treaſon by that ſhe depoſeth the fro thy heyghte to be an heryter: foꝛ he that lyueth heryteth deathe, and not death the lyfe, foꝛ all dyeth, and it heryteth al in theyꝛ life.

   a. 1534, Marcus Aurelius, [Antonio de Guevara (original translation)], translated by [John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners], “A Letter Sente by Marc the Emperour to Marcurino Being at Sannye Nowe Called Benauente. The .ix. Letter.”, in The Golden Boke of Marcus Aurelius Emperour and Eloquent Oratour, London: […] Thomæ Bertheleti […], published 1535, →OCLC, folio 127, recto

   “Vainly I seek ye: Death’s effacing finger / “Hath swept ye one by one: each hallow’d spirit / “Hath gone the land of life and love to herit, / “Hark! they are calling—doth Elia linger?”

   1876, an Indian Chaplain [pseudonym; George Livingstone Fenton], “Charles Lamb”, in The Mahabuleshwar Hills, and Other Poems, London: […] Provost and Co., […], →OCLC, “Sonnets on the Poets” section, page 40

   To those who create themselves wits at the cost of feminine delicacy (a habit of mind which be never did hold with) to them he would concede neither to bear the name nor to herit the tradition of a proper breeding: […]

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 14: Oxen of the Sun]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 388

   Synonyms: inherit