descendible

American  

[dih-sen-duh-buhl] / dɪˈsɛn də bəl /

Or descendable

adjective

1. capable of being transmitted by inheritance.

2. permitting descent.

   a descendible hill.

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descendible British  

/ dɪˈsɛndəbəl /

adjective

1. capable of being inherited

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Other Word Forms

• descendability noun
• descendibility noun
• undescendable adjective
• undescendible adjective

Etymology

Origin of descendible

1425–75; late Middle English descendable < Old French, equivalent to descend ( re ) to descend + -able -able; spelling later Latinized

Example Sentences

Any right, privilege, or possession to which a person is entitled by birth, such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution; esp. the rights or inheritance of the first born.

From Project Gutenberg

"It appears by communications from the stewards to the late Mr. Sawkins, that in the following manors, lands are descendible after the custom of Borough-English:— "Middlesex.

From Project Gutenberg

Under English law, when a nobleman dies leaving no male issue, the title, if descendible to his heirs general, as in the case of baronies by writ, is said to be in abeyance, until the king, by his prerogative, terminates the abeyance in favour of one of the co-heiresses.

From Project Gutenberg

First, it is in general hereditary, or descendible to the next heir, on the death or demise of the last proprietor.

From Project Gutenberg

Lands are not naturally descendible any more than thrones: but the law has thought proper, for the benefit and peace of the public, to establish hereditary succession in one as well as the other.

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