All 9 Uses of
hereditary
in
Moby Dick
- Scorning a turnstile wheel at her reverend helm, she sported there a tiller; and that tiller was in one mass, curiously carved from the long narrow lower jaw of her hereditary foe.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.†
Chpt 16-18
- A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered.†
Chpt 25-27
- For not only are whalemen as a body unexempt from that ignorance and superstitiousness hereditary to all sailors; but of all sailors, they are by all odds the most directly brought into contact with whatever is appallingly astonishing in the sea; face to face they not only eye its greatest marvels, but, hand to jaw, give battle to them.†
Chpt 40-42
- Nor, in some things, does the common, hereditary experience of all mankind fail to bear witness to the supernaturalism of this hue.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'Nay, Señor; hereabouts in this dull, warm, most lazy, and hereditary land, we know but little of your vigorous North.'†
Chpt 52-54
- Nevertheless, it cannot be denied, that upon the whole they are hereditarily entitled to EMBONPOINT.†
Chpt 88-90
- What are the Duke of Dunder's hereditary towns and hamlets but Fast-Fish?†
Chpt 88-90
- But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.†
Chpt 106-108
Definition:
passed from parent to child