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PATRIMONIAL

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

Example:

transmissible tradition

Synonyms:

ancestral; hereditary; patrimonial; transmissible

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

heritable; inheritable (capable of being inherited)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Derivation:

patrimony (an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture))

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