Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being descended with safety or comparative ease; that permits of a safe downward passage: as, a descendible hill.
- That can descend from an ancestor to a descendant; capable of being transmitted, as from father to son: as, a descendible estate.
- Also spelled
descendable .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Admitting descent; capable of being descended.
- adjective That may descend from an ancestor to an heir.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective law Of
property , able to pass bydescent ;inheritable byheirs .
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Examples
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"Title of _Anax andron_ descendible" (good word, "descendible") "from father to son, and accorded in the poems to personages altogether secondary,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892 Various
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Furthermore, when one examines the dominant theories offered to justify copyright-from Lockean labor to Hegelian personhood to utilitarian theories-no justification for descendible copyright is found.
Desai on the history of the role of heirs in copyright Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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IV That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge be hereditary.
Better Know a Founder – George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights « Publius the Geek 2009
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Then they inspected one of the descendible crafts that already returned from space.
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It has been sought to obtain badges or other distinctions for baronets and also to purge the order of wrongful assumptions, an evil to which the baronetage of Nova Scotia is peculiarly exposed, owing to the dignity being descendible to collateral heirs male of the grantee as well as to those of his body.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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The question arises, who is most responsible -- a peer for life whose dignities are not descendible, or a peer for life whose dignities are hereditary?
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House, the honor being descendible to their eldest sons in lineal succession, and the raising of the most considerable of these eldest sons at a future period to a higher degree of honor, as the province increased in wealth, together with the recognition of Mr. DeBoucherville's old noblesse, it would have most certainly much sooner produced that state of things which Sir Francis Bond Head and the
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail.
Richard Carvel — Complete Winston Churchill 1909
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I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail.
Richard Carvel — Volume 07 Winston Churchill 1909
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