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Inheritable adj.

Capable of being inherited; transmissible or descendible; as, an inheritable estate or title.

Capable of being transmitted from parent to child; as, inheritable qualities or infirmities.

Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. "By attainder... the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable." "The eldest daughter of the king is also alone inheritable to the crown on failure of issue male."

Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.

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Etymology of 'Inheritable'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inheritable" Quotes from Famous Books

... knew he wasn't mad, but that the world would think him so; and he wanted to know, from something he'd heard said, whether madness caused by an injury of the sort would or would not be considered by medical men as inheritable. And I told him at once, as I've told you to-day, there was not the faintest danger of it. But I never made such a slip in my life before as blurting out the name. I could only have done it to you. Trust ...

— Michael's Crag • Grant Allen

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