Office or title that is inherited by a relative of the previous holder.
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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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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 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!
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The lesser Barons were called up to the House by writ, which did not confer an hereditary title.
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And any applicant born with a hereditary title also has to give up their title or order of nobility.
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Reginald had no difficulty, with the documents he had recovered, in obtaining possession of his hereditary title and estates.
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By accepting a new, hereditary title he has provided proof that he wants to have his cake and eat it.
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He spoke of his hereditary title to these territories, and would hear of no stipulations before the act of homage.
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Even a King reigning by a hereditary title might well shrink from such a contest with the Estates of the Realm.
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Working with Dickson immersed Home in the complicated legal issues arising from the sale and alienation of land, and establishing hereditary title.
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When I left Spain, I entreated my friend to accompany me, and resume his hereditary title and estate, but I pleaded in vain.
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An American in England is very likely to meet some persons of high hereditary title, if they are not presented at the court itself.
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One of the numerous advantages attached to an hereditary title is the certainty that a hearer of some sort or another will always be forthcoming.
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These circumstances fix rank in a country where there are no hereditary titles.
