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Word Meanings - HEIRSHIP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting. Heirship movables, certain kinds of movables which the heir is entitled to take, besides the heritable estate.

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  • RIGHT-RUNNING
    Straight; direct.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • INHERITABILITY
    The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
  • RIGHTEOUSNESS
    The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
  • INHERITOR
    One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
  • CHARACTERISM
    A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • INHERITRIX
    See SHAK
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • RIGHT-ANGLED
    Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
  • RIGHTEOUS
    Doing, or according with, that which is right; yielding to all their due; just; equitable; especially, free from wrong, guilt, or sin; holy; as, a righteous man or act; a righteous retribution. Fearless in his righteous cause. Milton.
  • INHERITABLY
    By inheritance. Sherwood.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • RIGHTEN
    To do justice to. Relieve the opressed. Isa. i. 17.
  • RIGHT-LINED
    Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • BRIGHT
    See I
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • ASCERTAINABLE
    That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
  • CARTWRIGHT
    An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • FRIGHTFUL
    1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.

 

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