heritor

Noun

heritor (plural heritors)

1. A person who inherits; an heir or heiress.
   • How comes it then that from such high estate
     We have thus fallen, save that Luxury
     With barren merchandise piles up the gate
     Where nobler thoughts and deeds should enter by:
     Else might we still be Milton's heritors.a. 1881, Oscar Wilde, 'Quantum Mutata', in Poems
   • Morris, our sweet and simple Chaucer's child,
     Dear heritor of Spenser's tuneful reed,
     With soft and sylvan pipe has oft beguiled
     The weary soul of man in troublous need,
     And from the far and flowerless fields of ice
     Has brought fair flowers meet to make an earthly paradise.a. 1881, Oscar Wilde, 'The Garden of Eros', in Poems
2. (Scots law) A proprietor or landholder in a parish.
   • The printed statement reads (abridged in parts):—
     "To the Interested HERITORS in the Counties of Mid-Lothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Berwick. […]1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 87