单词 | inheritor |
释义 | inheritorn. 1. a. literal. One who inherits, or is heir to, an estate, title, etc. on the decease of the former possessor; an heir. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > heir erewardc975 arfnamec1000 heirc1275 inheritor1433 heritor1475 inheritanta1535 1433 J. Lydgate Legend St. Edmund iii. 1464 Pray for th'enherytour off Ingelond and France. 1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 36 The saide king Edwarde weddid dam Isabel king Charles of Fraunce daughter..enheriter of Fraunce. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. xxii. f. ixv Iago or Lago..as next Inherytor was made gouernour of Brytayne. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 76 They are sure to be inherytarys to a grete portyon of intaylyd land. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. clviijv Because the Kynge was not the true enheritor to the crowne. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 13 Borne inheritors of the dignity. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ix. 595 Inheritor of all his large demesnes. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. vii. 119 You become the sole inheritor of the wealth of this rich old hunks. b. One who inherits a quality or immaterial possession; one who inherits a disease or defect. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > inheritor inheritorc1515 inheritanta1535 c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) clxiii. 640 Huon of Burdeaux, my dere father, the great paines and pouertes that ye were wonte to suffer ye haue left me, now enheryter to the same. 1668 M. Hale Pref. Rolle's Abridgm. c j b The inheritor of his Father's vertues as well as of his Possessions. 1797 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iii, in Wks. (1815) VIII. 314 The new emperour, the inheritor of so much glory, and placed in a situation of so much delicacy, and difficulty for the preservation of that inheritance. 1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. vii. 119 The inheritors and continuers of a common civilization. 1879 F. J. Bumstead & R. W. Taylor Pathol. & Treatm. Venereal Dis. (rev. ed.) iii. xxvi. 735 In case of excessive activity of the disease in the first inheritor, it may appear even in the third generation. 2. transferred and figurative. One who comes into possession of, or is entitled to, something, to be held by him as of lawful right. Often in reference to spiritual possessions: cf. inheritance n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > [noun] > coming into possession by right > one who inheritorc1440 c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) ii. xxxiii. 352 Blissed be the poore of sprite, for enheriters of the kyngdom of heven. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Svii Called to be princes & inheritoures of heuen. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Confirmacion f. ix*v In my Baptisme, wherein I was made..the childe of God, and an inheritour of the kingdome of heauen. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iii. 34 Meane time but thinke how I may do thee good. And be inheritor of thy desire. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. lxv. 9 I will bring forth a seede out of Iacob, and out of Iudah an inheritour of my mountains. View more context for this quotation 1837 J. S. B. Monsell Hymns & Misc. Poems 45 Possessor here of grace, and love, Inheritor of heav'n above! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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