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Africander :: Africander (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a colored mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers..

Paternity :: Paternity (n.) The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity..

Modalist :: Modalist (n.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity..

Father-lasher :: Father-lasher (n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach..

Godfather :: Godfather (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.

Stepparent :: Stepmother (n.) The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

Stepson :: Stepsister (n.) A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

Reverence :: Reverence (n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.

Motherland :: Motherland (n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.

Heteroousian :: Heteroousian (n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

Grandpapa :: Grandpapa (n.) A grandfather.

Father :: Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.)..

Begetter :: Begetter (n.) One who begets; a father.

Sire :: Sire (n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

Family :: Family (v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family..

Daddy Longlegs :: Daddy longlegs () A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs..

Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms..

Gloria :: Gloria (n.) A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches..

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