Definitions for heritable

heritable her·it·a·ble

Spelling: [her-i-tuh-buh l]
IPA: /ˈhɛr ɪ tə bəl/

Heritable is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 502 anagrams from letters in heritable (abeehilrt).

Definitions for heritable

adjective

  1. capable of being inherited; inheritable; hereditary.
  2. capable of inheriting.

Origin of heritable

1325-75; Middle English Middle French, equivalent to herit(er) to inherit + -able -able. See heir, heredity

Examples for heritable

This office of heritable keeper remained with the Nithesdale family (chief of the Maxwells) till their forfeiture, 1715.

The original duration of a knight's fee until about 1100 was for his life; thereafter it was heritable.

I think you said he is rich, independent of the heritable subject.

An individual does not lose its importance for knowledge, because its qualities are not heritable.

Slaves were heritable and transferable property, and could be mortgaged or let out on hire.

heritable novelties or variations often crop up in living creatures, and these form the raw material of evolution.

But culture is not a heritable possession; no one can win it save by virtue of a higher spirit and will.

The father divides them as heritable property into equal portions for bequest to his children.

This agrarian law did not affect the existing rights of property and heritable possession.

It was for long the only method of attaching a debtor's heritable property.

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