inherit to possess, to obtain possession of:
“Yea, all which it inherit,”
THE TEMPEST, iv. 1. 154
;
“This, or else nothing, will inherit her,”
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, iii.
2. 87
;
“inherit us So much as of a thought of ill in him,”
RICHARD II., i. 1. 85
;
“never after to inherit it,”
TITUS ANDRONICUS, ii. 3. 3
;
“shall you this night Inherit at my house,”
ROMEO AND JULIET, i. 2. 30
;
“But to the girdle do the gods inherit,”
KING LEAR, iv. 6. 126.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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