Inheritance: alternatives and connections

The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic growth.

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Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

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Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

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The act of bequeathing or leaving by will; as, a bequest of property by A. to B.

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Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a…

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A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive;…

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The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

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Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal pr…

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A gift of property by will, esp. of money or personal property; a bequest. Also Fig.; as, a legacy of dishonor or disease.

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Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.

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A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.

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The state of being the firstborn of the same parents; seniority by birth among children of the same family.

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The act or process of acquiring.

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To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repe…

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Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal pr…

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That which is inherited, or passes from heir to heir; inheritance.

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