Word Meanings - FREEBORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Born free; not born in vasssalage; inheriting freedom.

Related words: (words related to FREEBORN)

• INHERITABILITY
  The quality of being inheritable or descendible to heirs. Jefferson.
• INHERITOR
  One who inherits; an heir. Born inheritors of the dignity. Milton.
• INHERITRIX
  See SHAK
• INHERITABLY
  By inheritance. Sherwood.
• INHERITRESS
  A heiress. Milman.
• FREEDOM
  1. The state of being free; exemption from the power and control of another; liberty; independence. Made captive, yet deserving freedom more. Milton. 2. Privileges; franchises; immunities. Your charter and your caty's freedom. Shak. 3. Exemption
• INHERITABLE
  Capable of taking by inheritance, or of receiving by descent; capable of succeeding to, as an heir. By attainder . . . the blood of the person attainted is so corrupted as to be rendered no longer inheritable. Blackstone. The eldest daughter of
• INHERIT
  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
• INHERITANCE
  Transmission and reception by animal or plant generation. (more info) 1. The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities. 2. That which is or may be inherited; that which is derived
• DISINHERITANCE
  The act of disinheriting, or the condition of being; disinherited; disherison.
• ENFREEDOM
  To set free. Shak.
• DISINHERIT
  1. To cut off from an inheritance or from hereditary succession; to prevent, as an heir, from coming into possession of any property or right, which, by law or custom, would devolve on him in the course of descent. Of how fair a portion
• COINHERITOR
  A coheir.
• COINHERITANCE
  Joint inheritance.