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单词 hereditament
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hereditamentn.

Brit. /ˌhɛrᵻˈdɪtəm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˌhɛrəˈdɪdəmənt/
Forms: late Middle English– hereditament, 1500s heredytament, 1600s haereditament, 1600s heredyttament.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from French. Or (ii) a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French hereditament; Latin hereditamentum.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman hereditament any item of property that can be inherited (a1432 or earlier), or its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin hereditamentum (13th cent.; from 1453 in British sources) < hereditare to inherit (see hereditation n.) + classical Latin -mentum -ment suffix.Sense 2 apparently shows a semantic development within English.
1.
a. Law. Any item of property that can be inherited; something either corporeal (such as land or a building) or incorporeal (such as a rent) that can be passed to an heir; real property.corporeal, incorporeal hereditament: see the first element.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > heritable property
hereditament1461
inheritament1463
inheritance1473
inhereditance1483
inhereditament1491
heritage?1507
family fortune1750
heritable1801
1461–2 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1461 §11. m. 3 All such maners, castelles..feefermes, rentes..prerogatyfs, eschetes, custumes, reversions, remeyndres and all other hereditaments, with her appurtenauncez.
1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §15. m. 30 The same late erle shuld forfet to you, soverayne lord, and youre heires, all the castelles, maners..services, fees, advousons, hereditamentes and possessions.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ccxvii A..Parlyament, at the whiche ye Duke of Alensone was Iuged to lose his hede & his heredytamentys to be forfaytyd vnto ye Kynge.
1571 Act 13 Eliz. c. 10. §2 Tythes tenements or other hereditaments.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 6 a Haereditament is the largest word in all in that kind, for whatsoever may be inherited is an haereditament, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real or personal or mixt.
1705 tr. Present State Europe Nov. 441 The real Estates and Hereditaments..shall not be confiscated or sequestred.
1773 G. Washington Bond 30 Nov. in Papers (1994) Colonial Ser. IX. 389 The sum..agreed to be paid for the aforesaid mesuage's lands tenement's water-grist-mills and hereditament's.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 540 The representation of Westmoreland was almost as much one of the hereditaments of the Lowther family as Lowther Hall.
1892 J. A. Chapman Ann. Newberry ii. 545 Mr. Smith, the owner of Chappell's Ferry, has given it with all its rights and hereditaments as his contribution towards the erection of a free bridge at Chappells.
1925 Act 15 & 16 Geo. V c. 90 §2 Every general rate shall be a rate at a uniform amount per pound on the rateable value of each hereditament.
1992 A. Kurzweil Case of Curiosities xxxix. 252 The notary moved on to more pertinent matters, the hereditaments.
b. A condition, emotion, etc., passed on by a predecessor. Cf. hereditary adj. 1b. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > inherited quality or constitution
draught1483
strind?a1513
patrimonya1578
strain1605
inheritance1613
hereditament1795
stripe1861
stock1866
unit character1902
1795 J. S. Hobart in J. Jay's Corr. (1893) IV. 196 This power ought to be exercised by the spiritual or the civil rulers solely: it is an hereditament of which they cannot be seized as tenants in common.
1861 H. Bushnell Christian Nurture i. vii. 169 A kind of hereditament in the family.
a1935 W. Watson Poems (1936) 269 A broad estate of pleasure and of pain, Large hereditaments of bliss and woe.
2. Heirship, inheritance.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir > position of
heritance1422
heirship1478
hereditament1510
heirdom1598
1510 Act 1 Henry VIII c. 19 in Statutes of Realm (1817) III. 17 The..Kyng..restored and habled your said Suppliant..in name state degree blode and Hereditament.
1632 T. E. Lawes Womens Rights iii. xxxii. 189 It may be a good Ioynture by matter of subsequent Hereditament.
1804 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 9 June 902 The Members of the Imperial Family in the order of hereditament shall bear the title of French Princes.
1844 M. Hennell Social Syst. 50 The natural head of the community was the family father; then the son; and this natural hereditament continued as long as the direct line was maintained.
1917 F. B. Reeves Russia then & Now 179 The Czar's quick, peaceful abdication of his throne, his unavoidably by hereditament, is evidence of a head and heart inherited from his father.
2008 M. Blackwell in G. Morçöl et al. Business Improvem. Districts xix. 453 In general terms, all rights in or connected with land are heritable—hence the origin of hereditament.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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