heriotable

adj

heriotable

adj

Etymology From heriot + -able.

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:

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