IPage 223
- English Word Inheritance Definition Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation.
- English Word Inheritance Definition A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law.
- English Word Inherited Definition of Inherit
- English Word Inheriting Definition of Inherit
- English Word Inheritor Definition One who inherits; an heir.
- English Word Inheritress Definition A heiress.
- English Word Inheritrix Definition Same as Inheritress.
- English Word Inherse Definition See Inhearse.
- English Word Inhesion Definition The state of existing, of being inherent, in something; inherence.
- English Word Inhiation Definition A gaping after; eager desire; craving.
- English Word Inhibit Definition To check; to hold back; to restrain; to hinder.
- English Word Inhibit Definition To forbid; to prohibit; to interdict.
- English Word Inhibited Definition of Inhibit
- English Word Inhibiting Definition of Inhibit
- English Word Inhibition Definition The act of inhibiting, or the state of being inhibited; restraint; prohibition; embargo.
- English Word Inhibition Definition A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc.
- English Word Inhibition Definition A writ from a higher court forbidding an inferior judge from further proceedings in a cause before; esp., a writ issuing from a higher ecclesiastical court to an inferior one, on appeal.
- English Word Inhibitor Definition That which causes inhibitory action; esp., an inhibitory nerve.
- English Word Inhibitory Definition Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center.
- English Word Inhibitory-motor Definition A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue.