Office or title that is inherited by a relative of the previous holder.
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Examples for "hereditary"
Examples for "hereditary"
1In families with a hereditary form, there is a clear genotype-phenotype correlation.
2The office of midwife was hereditary in the family of the basket-maker.
3I think a large part is diet but, unfortunately, it's also hereditary.
4Purpose: High myopia is a severe hereditary ocular disease leading to blindness.
5For the McCain family the Grand National has become an hereditary prize.
1Indeed, every hereditary office had, besides its actual holder, its Tanist, with right of succession.
2There are three classes of persons who stand between the people and Lumawig, and to-day all hold an hereditary office.
3Besides this they had, and still have, special historians in these nations, an hereditary office descending from father to son.
4He was one of the Toske tribe, and his ancestors had for some time held the hereditary office of bey of Tepeleni.
5A king was to be in England, for the future, a respected and honored chief magistrate appointed for life and to hereditary office.
1The men of whom it is composed naturally derive from their superior and hereditary position a taste for what is extremely well made and lasting.
1If a hereditary title were to be respected, Mary possessed it.
2Matiamvo is the hereditary title, muata meaning lord or chief.
3Two years ago he was given the hereditary title of Marqués de Tàpies by King Juan Carlos.
4Assuming his hereditary title as its Count made him one of the wealthiest beings in the galaxy.
5How far superior to any hereditary title!