单词 | hereditation |
释义 | hereditationn. Now rare. Inheritance; heredity; (also) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > [noun] > hereditary > right by descent descender1465 kindness1522 hereditation1649 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance descent?a1400 descencea1425 hereditation1649 the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] heredity1844 hereditation1845 inheritance1859 heritability1882 hereditability1895 1649 C. Love Modest & Clear Vindic. 47 Our King..had a title to the Crowne by succession, and a just Hereditation. 1696 W. Atwood Refl. Treasonable Opinion 36 The Inheritance or Hereditation of the Crown is entail'd upon the King. 1794 E. Stiles Hist. Three Judges King Charles I v. 216 Hereditation of dominion..is the first step to despotism. 1845 C. G. F. Gore Self II. x. 331 Gestures of conciliation such as it requires the schooling of years, and perhaps the hereditation of centuries, to modify into..good breeding. 1883 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 85 74 Hereditation as a cause may exist oftener than appears. 1896 Expositor Dec. 416 We preserve hereditary good: we originate good hereditations. 1973 E. J. McManus Black Bondage in North iv. 59 The word strangers was deleted, thereby removing alienage as a condition and legalizing the hereditation of slave status. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1649 |
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