Meanings of hereditary office in English

Indeed, every hereditary office had, besides its actual holder, its Tanist, with right of succession.

There are three classes of persons who stand between the people and Lumawig, and to-day all hold an hereditary office.

Besides this they had, and still have, special historians in these nations, an hereditary office descending from father to son.

He was one of the Toske tribe, and his ancestors had for some time held the hereditary office of bey of Tepeleni.

A king was to be in England, for the future, a respected and honored chief magistrate appointed for life and to hereditary office.

The old prince was entitled by an hereditary office to a place in the great procession of the day, and was not now with them.

A government calling itself free, with an hereditary office, is like a thorn in the flesh, that produces a fermentation which endeavours to discharge it.

"That I may be yours is the only part of my father's hereditary office I covet!"

The villages are of immemorial antiquity; their names, their traditions, their hereditary offices have come down out of the dim past through countless generations.