hereditary
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Hereditary \He*red"i*ta*ry\, a. [L. hereditarius, fr. hereditas
heirship, inheritance, fr. heres heir: cf. F.
h['e]r['e]ditaire. See {Heir}.]
1. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to
an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or
that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or
crown.
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2. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a
constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a
child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.
Syn: Ancestral; patrimonial; inheritable.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "hereditary":
ancestral, atavistic, bequeathed, bodily, born, coeval, congenital,
connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, genic,
handed down, heritable, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate,
indigenous, inheritable, inherited, innate, instinctive,
instinctual, matroclinous, native, native to, natural, natural to,
organic, patrimonial, patroclinous, physical, plasmatic, plasmic,
primal, protoplasmic, temperamental, traditional, transferable,
transmissible, willed
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