- received from or as if from one’s predecessors: Their wealth is from inherited properties, mostly through the estate of their mother’s parents.For the novelist Henry James, history, tradition, precedence, and established forms constituted the inherited wisdom of civilization.
- received through genetic transmission: the family’s inherited trait of straight blond hair;kidney problems symptomatic of an inherited disorder.
- (of a base runner) allowed on base by a previous pitcher:The unlucky reliever balked, hit a batter, threw a wild pitch, allowed an inherited runner to score, and got only one out.
