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Heriotable vs Heritable - What's the difference?

heriotable | heritable |

As adjectives the difference between heriotable and heritable

is that heriotable is subject to the payment of a heriot while heritable is able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children.

heriotable

English

Adjective

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

    heritable

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • able to be inherited, passed from parents to their children
  • * 1791: Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man
    • All hereditary government is in its nature tyranny. An heritable' crown, or an '''heritable''' throne, or by what other fanciful name such things may be called, have no other significant explanation than that mankind are ' heritable property.
  • * 1909: Albert Charles Seward, Darwin and Modern Science
    • But if we consider that all heritable variations must have their roots in the germ-plasm, and further, that when personal selection does not intervene, ...

    Synonyms

    * inheritable