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

Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A great-grandfather.

Granduncle :: Granduncle (n.) A father's or mother's uncle.

Father :: Father (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent..

Putative :: Putative (a.) Commonly thought or deemed; supposed; reputed; as, the putative father of a child..

Porphyrogenitism :: Porphyrogenitism (n.) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born..

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..

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

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

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..

Lead :: Lead (v. t.) To guide or conduct with the hand, or by means of some physical contact connection; as, a father leads a child; a jockey leads a horse with a halter; a dog leads a blind man..

Godson :: Godson (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

Macedonian :: Macedonian (n.) One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son..

Fatherlessness :: Fatherlessness (n.) The state of being without a father.

Daddy Longlegs :: Daddy longlegs () An arachnidan of the genus Phalangium, and allied genera, having a small body and four pairs of long legs; -- called also harvestman, carter, and grandfather longlegs..

Father Longlegs :: Father longlegs () See Daddy longlegs, 2..

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..

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..

Adoptive :: Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language..

Rigid :: Rigid (a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence..

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