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  • English Word Inheritance Definition Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
  • English Word Inheritance Definition A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.
  • English Word Inherited Definition of Inherit
  • English Word Inheriting Definition of Inherit
  • English Word Inheritor Definition One who inherits; an heir.
  • English Word Inheritress Definition A heiress.
  • English Word Inheritrix Definition Same as Inheritress.
  • English Word Inherse Definition See Inhearse.
  • English Word Inhesion Definition The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.
  • English Word Inhiation Definition A gaping after; eager desire; craving.
  • English Word Inhibit Definition To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
  • English Word Inhibit Definition To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
  • English Word Inhibited Definition of Inhibit
  • English Word Inhibiting Definition of Inhibit
  • English Word Inhibition Definition The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
  • English Word Inhibition Definition A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
  • English Word Inhibition Definition A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
  • English Word Inhibitor Definition That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.
  • English Word Inhibitory Definition Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.
  • English Word Inhibitory-motor Definition A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue.
  • English Word Inhive Definition To place in a hive; to hive.
  • English Word Inhold Definition To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess.
  • English Word Inholder Definition An inhabitant.
  • English Word Inholding Definition of Inhold
  • English Word Inhoop Definition To inclose in a hoop, or as in a hoop.
  • English Word Inhospitable Definition Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people.
  • English Word Inhospitable Definition Affording no shelter or sustenance; barren; desert; bleak; cheerless; wild.
  • English Word Inhospitality Definition The quality or state of being inhospitable; inhospitableness; lack of hospitality.
  • English Word Inhuman Definition Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
  • English Word Inhuman Definition Characterized by, or attended with, cruelty; as, an inhuman act or punishment.