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heriotable

heriotable adjective: subject to the payment of a heriot.

Adjective

heriotable (not comparable)

  1. Subject to the payment of a heriot.
    • The tenants are chiefly customary and heriotable.1777, Joseph Nicolson, Richard Burn, The history and antiquities of the counties of Westmorland and Cumberland

Origin of heriotable

From heriot + -able.

Questions about heriotable

What does heriotable mean?
Heriotable means subject to the payment of a heriot.
What part of speech is heriotable?
Heriotable is an adjective.

Words near heriotable in the dictionary

  1. Hering illusion
  2. Hering illusions
  3. Herington
  4. Heringtons
  5. heriot
  6. heriotable
  7. herioted
  8. herioting
  9. heriots
  10. Herisau
  11. herisson

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