In-hēr'it1, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. INHERITED; p. pr. & vb. n. INHERITING.] [O. Fr. enհériter, Lat. inhæreditare, inhæredare, to appoint as an heir; N. Fr. hériter, Pr. heretar, Sp. heredar, Pg. herdar, It. eredare, to be heir, to inherit, from L. Lat. hæreditare, to inherit, from Lat. hæres, heir.]
Sense 1. (Law.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of the ancestor; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown.
Sense 2. To receive or take by birth; to have by nature.
Prince Harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did naturally inherit of his father he hath . . . manured with good store of fertile sherris. Shak.
Sense 3. To become possessed of; to possess; to own.
He that had rest would think that I had none, To bury so much gold under a tree, And never after to inherit it. Shak.