Hereditary transmission of the physical and genetic qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants.

(obsolete) Near this place; nearby. / (formal) By this means, action or process.

Passed on as an inheritance, by last will or intestate. / Of a title, honor or right: legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death.

A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords.

(dated) In time to come; in some future time or state. / From now on. / Sequentially after this point (in time, in the writing constituting a document, in the movement along a path, etc.)

A future existence or state. / Existence after death.

(archaic) Future.

Near here.

Close to; nearby.

The branch of mechanics dealing with the effects of stress and strain on physical bodies over time.