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