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Favor :: Favor (n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father..

Grandpapa :: Grandpapa (n.) A grandfather.

Analogue :: Analogue (n.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin pater is the analogue of the English father..

Fathers-in-law :: Fathers-in-law (pl. ) of Father-in-la.

Ayle :: Ayle (n.) A grandfather.

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

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

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

Father :: Father (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.

Homoousian :: Homoousian (n.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian..

Father :: Father (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors..

Parricide :: Parricide (n.) Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor..

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

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..

Fatherland :: Fatherland (n.) One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

Mameluco :: Mameluco (n.) A child born of a white father and Indian mother.

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..

Fatherliness :: Fatherliness (n.) The qualities of a father; parantal kindness, care, etc..

Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter..

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

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