Hereditary
Hereditary adjective - Genetically passed or capable of being passed from parent to offspring.
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Regular and hereditary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Regular" instead an adjective "Hereditary".
Nearby Word: heredity
Regular
Regular adjective - Appearing or occurring repeatedly from time to time.
Hereditary and regular are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hereditary" instead an adjective "Regular".
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- One might speculate that perhaps it was once a regular monarchy which the government slowly watered down into a non-hereditary, limited-time position.
Source: Elective Monarchy - However, both Aradesh and his daughter Tandi were presidents-for-life (though they did hold regular and mostly fair elections), and the major reason the presidency never became hereditary is that Tandi's son is thicker than a yard of lard.
Source: Disaster Democracy
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