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  1. transitive verb To receive (property or a title, for example) from an ancestor by legal succession or will.
  2. transitive verb To receive by bequest or as a legacy.
  3. transitive verb To receive or take over from a predecessor: The new administration inherited the economic problems of the last four years.
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  • 'Suppose at one time a law that allowed only males to inherit, and during the continuance of this law many estates to have descended, passing by the females, to remoter heirs. —  Life Of Johnson
  • He'd never expected to inherit, and it was already run down. ' —  Rome's Revenge
  • But we've borrowed against Donald's expectations ... so you see it's essential for us that there really is plenty to inherit, as there are so many people to share it with. —  Hot Money
  • I thought of his solicitors but I imagined them listening to me and knowing I wasn't to -- well, inherit, and thinking it was all sour grapes .... —  Put On By Cunning
  • But he couldn't Elspeth must inherit, and I could twist her round my little finger ... couldn't I? —  Flashman And The Redskins
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, to make heir to, from Late Latin inhērēditāre, to inherit : Latin in-, in; see in-2 + Late Latin hērēditāre, to inherit (from Latin hērēs, hērēd-, heir; see ghē- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English inheriten, enheriten, from Old French enheriter, inheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare, appoint as heir, Middle Latin also put in possession, inherit, from Latin in, in, + heres (hered-), heir: see heir and heritage.
 

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