Middle English Dictionary Entry
enheritāble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | enheritāble adj. Also in-, enerit-. |
| Etymology | OF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. hereditable.
1.
(a) Of persons: entitled to inherit (property, sovereignty, etc.);--often with to phrase; (b) of property, sovereignty, etc: inheritable; hereditary.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1422) *Anc.Pet.(PRO)117/5842 : Heire to þe seide Richarde his brother and enherited and inheritable to his seid fader and to þe seid Richard his brother and to euery of his auncesters.
- (1437) *Plea & Mem.R.Lond.GildhA 64.2b : The seid next heires..heneritables in the fourme aboueseid.
- c1450 3 KCol.(2) (Add 31042)569 : Be successioun Als souereygne lorde hauynge the reuerence Enheritable.
- (1455) RParl.5.312b : The said Honours, Maners, Londes, and Tenementes..arne entayled to William..Lorde Bardolf, and he as hole heire in the taylle to the said Thomas, his daughters and William, inheritable to theym.
- (1458) *Plea & Mem.R.Lond.GildhA 83.mem.2 : I am enheritable to certeyn lyvelode in þe citee of London.
- c1475-a1600(a1473) Fortescue Declaration (Clermont)531 : By that title the Kyng oure souerayne lorde was vndoutably inherytable to the Roialme of Englond byfore the same Kynge Henry.
- 1543(1464) Hardyng Chron.B (Grafton)239 : Therle Henry, of England then constable, Deliuered all the castels and citees right To kyng Wyllyam his brother enheritable.
b
- c1475-a1600(a1473) Fortescue Declaration (Clermont)526 : The corone of this londe is not inheritable by a woman.
- 1790(1471-1472) Ordin.Househ.Edw.IV(2) (Topham)74 : According to the Kinge's old enheritable prises.