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Where letties hereditate a dark mien swart hairy? —
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Hae sunt meae imagines, haec nobilitas, non hereditate relicta, ut illa illis, sed quae egomet plurimis laboribus et periculis quaesivi.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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Law, _Tit_., 62: _de alodis_, 6: de terra vero Salica in mulierem nulla portio hereditatis transit, sed hoc virilis sexus adquirat, hoc est, filii in ipsa hereditate succedunt.
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MSS. were placed there, with this inscription upon each: _Ex hereditate doctissimi viri Nicola de Nicolis de Florentiâ_.
The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books Arthur Lee Humphreys 1905
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/2 "Ab eo ... in cujus locum hereditate vel emptione aliove quo iure successi."
The Common Law Oliver Wendell Holmes 1888
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_hereditatibus_, multa _emptionibus_, multa dotibus tenebantur sine iniuria '; for this sense of _relicta_, compare Nepos _Att_ 13 2' domum habuit ... ab auunculo hereditate _relictam_ ', Livy XXII 26 1' pecunia a patre _relicta_ ', and Martial X xlvii 3' res non parta labore, sed
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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64 Tulit ut ea familia quae ex Attali hereditate erat ageretur et populo divideretur, Cf. Plut.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
erinmckean commented on the word hereditate
"Like the word inherit, but limited to characteristics obtained genetically. You can't hereditate money like you can inherit money, but you can hereditate hair color, or a big nose."
January 4, 2015