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Grandfatherly :: Grandfatherly (a.) Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent.

Godchild :: Godchild (n.) One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather..

Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate..

Ayle :: Ayle (n.) A grandfather.

Orbate :: Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.

Father :: Father (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity..

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

Semi-arian :: Semi-Arian (n.) A member of a branch of the Arians which did not acknowledge the Son to be consubstantial with the Father, that is, of the same substance, but admitted him to be of a like substance with the Father, not by nature, but by a peculiar privilege..

Eunomian :: Eunomian (n.) A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father..

Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..

Pape :: Pape (n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope..

Stephanion :: Stepfather (n.) The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.

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

Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer..

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..

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

Typhon :: Typhon (n.) According to Hesiod, the son of Typhoeus, and father of the winds, but later identified with him..

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

On :: On (prep.) Forward, in succession; as, from father to son, from the son to the grandson, and so on..

Filiation :: Filiation (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father..

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