Definition of "inherited" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of inherit. (verb)
• Obtained via an inheritance (adjective)

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• "Not only a want of philanthropic feeling in their betters, but an inherited contempt for all small industry and retail dealing, has helped to hide them away from us: an _inherited_ contempt, because it is in fact a survival from an older social system, when the citizen did not need the work of the artisan and small retailer, but supplied all his own wants within the circle of his household, i.e. his own family and slaves, and produced on his farm the material of his food and clothing."
• "Mrs. Tweksbury relied absolutely upon what she termed her inherited intuition."
• "Sometimes I wonder how much of what we call inherited evil is the result not of heredity at all, but of this sort of unconscious education."