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Bible Dictionaries
Inheritance
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.
(2):
(n.) That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived by an heir from an ancestor or other person; a heritage; a possession which passes by descent.
(3):
(n.) A permanent or valuable possession or blessing, esp. one received by gift or without purchase; a benefaction.
(4):
(n.) Possession; ownership; acquisition.
(5):
(n.) Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
(6):
(n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Inheritance'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/i/inheritance.html. 1828.
