Synonym: inborn, inherited. Antonym: heroine. Similar words: heredity, creditable, credit, iditarod, unitary, meditate, on credit, sanitary. Meaning: [hɪ'redɪtərɪ /-trɪ] adj. 1. tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity 2. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent.
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31. Where evidence is available, some kind of hereditary comital succession seems always to have been normal.
32. Hereditary and acquired p53 mutations in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
33. However, the period immediately after the Conquest saw short-lived hereditary surnames beginning to emerge.
34. The warden usually had under him foresters of fee, whose hereditary offices were subject to the usual feudal incidents.
35. The defeat is the second inflicted on the Government since the expulsion of hereditary peers.
36. The remaining 275 hereditary peers state no preference, though they would mostly vote Tory if pushed.
37. The hereditary principle is only as good as heredity's next spin of the wheel.
38. Of course, each King of Ireland would have the right to confer hereditary peerages on heroes and contributors to the public good.
39. Now, however, it is possible to identify specific gene components that contain the relevant hereditary information.
40. The estimated risk factors for radiation-induced fatal cancers and serious hereditary damage are given in table 5.4.
41. A hereditary Forest warden had therefore to seek royal confirmation if he wished to grant away his bailiwick.
42. The hereditary Forest wardenship might of course be inherited by women.
43. Members of the House of Lords sat by virtue of birth, holding hereditary peerages.
44. Sadly, this right to leave your bits and pieces to your budgie or bulldog is denied those with hereditary titles.
45. The rich were not a hereditary class, for most wealthy men were self-made.
46. Further, the chromosomes had precisely the properties postulated by Mendel as belonging to his hereditary factors.
47. Perhaps gene therapy could prevent the mutation of the prion gene that causes hereditary brain disease.
48. Unsoundness which could be due to hereditary factors would be a good reason for rejecting the mare.
49. The skeletal width of the shoulders is hereditary but an illusion of breadth can be created by fully developing the shoulder muscles.
50. Some cases are hereditary so genetic counselling should be given.
51. The right is hereditary but I've done nothing about it, slightly to my father's chagrin.
52. It was rather a kind of oligarchy, with a strong hereditary element in its composition.
53. For others, it's the removal of the hereditary peers or the Macpherson inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence case.
54. Investigations of a hereditary or hard-core social problem group have always been crucial in conservative social reformist strategies.
55. So the largely hereditary, geriatric, nominated, meritocratic House of Lords continues on its useful path.
56. What occurred was the expansion and deepening of its concepts to include racial and hereditary factors.
57. Those that were able to acclimatize might have survived long enough for hereditary processes to be invoked and adaptation to occur. Sentencedict.com
58. In addition to cancer inductions, ionizing radiation may have significant effects on pre-natal development and on genetic or hereditary factors.
59. Until his party's death, a hereditary peer, Lord Milford, was the sole Communist in parliament.
60. These problems can be hereditary and there is no doubt that they can be triggered or made considerably worse by stress.
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