Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for EX-HER-E-DA'TION
EX-HER-E-DA'TION, n. [L. exhæredatio, exhæredo; ex and hæres, an heir.]
In the civil law, a disinheriting; a father's excluding a child from inheriting any part of his estate. Encyc.
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