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Great-grandmother :: Great-grandmother (n.) The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.

Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care..

Procreator :: Procreator (n.) One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.

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..

Orphan :: Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living..

Picture :: Picture (n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief..

Patrician :: Patrician (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians..

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

Patricide :: Patricide (n.) The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.

Forbear :: Forbear (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.

Traditive :: Traditive (a.) Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional..

Succession :: Succession (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne..

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..

Uterine :: Uterine (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father..

Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..

Label :: Label (n.) A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living..

Arian :: Arian (a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings..

Emancipate :: Emancipate (v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country..

Father :: Father (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection..

Primogenitor :: Primogenitor (n.) The first ancestor; a forefather.

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