hereditary
/həˈɹɛdɪˌtɛɹi/ adjective C1- Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate.
- Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death. · Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
- Of a person: holding a legally hereditary title or rank. · hereditary rulers
- Of a disease or trait: passed from a parent to offspring in the genes. · Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
- Of a ring: such that all submodules of projective modules over the ring are also projective.
- Of a property of graphs: such that if G has the property, so must every induced subgraph of G.
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But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind.
A man who had read deeply about Napoleon, or who had possibly received some hereditary family injury through the great war, might conceivably form such an idée fixe and under its influence be capable of any fantastic outrage.”
Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the family, and in my stepfather’s case it had, I believe, been intensified by his long residence in the tropics.
Those who took me from my father, and who always intended, sooner or later, to sell me again to my original proprietor, as they have now done, calculated that, in order to make the most of their bargain, it would be politic to leave me in possession of all my personal and hereditary worth, and even to increase the value, if possible.
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