And if we reject the natural explanation of hereditary descent from a common ancestry, we can only suppose that the Deity, in creating man, took the most scrupulous pains to make him in the image of the ape.
One of the nine chiefs who govern the tribe, holding their positions by hereditary descent.
By hereditary descenthe became, in 1854, head chief of the Bear band of Otoes, and being ambitious, worked himself finally into the position of head chief of the Otoes and Missourias.
About eight months after his death, however, a child was born to his widow, and this child, according to the then received principles of hereditary descent, was entitled to succeed his father.
It was still a line of hereditary descent; still an hereditary descent in the same blood, though an hereditary descent qualified with Protestantism.
Some time after the Conquest great questions arose upon the legal principles of hereditary descent.
The law of hereditary descent is frequently involved in great embarrassment.
There was hardly a petty prince on the continent who was not drawn into the strife--to decide whether Philip of Bourbon or Charles of Hapsburg, was entitled by hereditary descent to the throne of Spain.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hereditary descent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
