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. - SPRIGHTLY
Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.