单词 |
heredipety |
释义 |
heredipety|hɛrɪˈdɪpɪtɪ| [f. L. hērēdipet-a legacy-hunter (f. hērēdium legacy + petere to seek) + -y (as in colloquy, etc.).] Legacy-hunting.
1855Milman Lat. Chr. i. ii. (1864) I. 91 Heredipety or legacy hunting is inveighed against, in the clergy especially, as by the older Satirists. Ibid. iii. v. II. 29 Already heredipety, seeking inheritances by undue means, is branded as an ecclesiastical vice. So hereˈdipetous a., legacy-hunting.
1866F. Hall in Lyndesay's Monarche 245 marg., To the parrot came the magpie, heredipetous, and the raven and the kite, ready to help heavenward. |

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