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