[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

inherit \inher"it\, v. t. imp.  p. p. inherited; p. pr. 
   vb. n. inheriting. oe. enheriten to inherit, to give a
   heritage to, of. enheriter to appoint as an heir, l.
   inhereditare; pref. in- in + hereditare to inherit, fr. heres
   heir. see heir.
   1913 webster
   1. law to take by descent from an ancestor; to take by
      inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor
      or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive
      as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at
      his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate
      of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his
      father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the
      crown.
      1913 webster

   2. to receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive
      or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical
      qualities, genes, or genetic traits; as, he inherits a
      strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc.; to
      inherit hemophilia
      1913 webster +pjc

            prince harry is valiant; for the cold blood he did
            naturally inherit of his father he hath . . .
            manured . . . with good store of fertile sherris.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to come into possession of; to possess; to own; to enjoy
      as a possession.
      1913 webster

            but the meek shall inherit the earth. --ps. xxxvii.
                                                  11.
      1913 webster

            to bury so much gold under a tree,
            and never after to inherit it.        --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. to put in possession of. r. --shak.
      1913 webster
see also:
inherited inheriting heir 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

inherited \inherited\ adj. genetics
   tending to occur among members of a family usually by
   heredity; as, an inherited disease.

   syn: familial, genetic, hereditary, transmitted,
        transmissible.
        wordnet 1.5

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

inherited
     adj : tending to occur among members of a family usually by
           heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits";
           "genetically transmitted features" syn: familial, genetic,
            hereditary, transmitted, transmissible
see also:
familial genetic hereditary transmitted transmissible 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

32 moby thesaurus words for "inherited":
   atavistic, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate,
   connatural, constitutional, genetic, genic, hereditary,
   in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnate, indigenous, innate,
   instinctive, instinctual, matroclinous, native, native to, natural,
   natural to, organic, patrimonial, patroclinous, physical, primal,
   temperamental, unacquired

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