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Ancestress :: Ancestress (n.) A female ancestor.

Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form..

Consanguineous :: Consanguineous (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

Ancestorial :: Ancestorial (a.) Ancestral.

Grandsire :: Grandsire (n.) Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor..

Shintiism :: Shintiism (n.) One of the two great systems of religious belief in Japan. Its essence is ancestor worship, and sacrifice to dead heroes..

Majority :: Majority (n.) Ancestors; ancestry.

Descendent :: Descendent (a.) Descending; falling; proceeding from an ancestor or source.

Clan :: Clan (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald..

Belsire :: Belsire (n.) A grandfather, or ancestor..

Hereditary :: Hereditary (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown..

Generation :: Generation (n.) A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age..

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

Tradition :: Tradition (n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed..

People :: People (n.) One's ancestors or family; kindred; relations; as, my people were English..

Ancestry :: Ancestry (n.) A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent..

House :: House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel..

Issue :: Issue (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants..

Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two..

Foregoer :: Foregoer (n.) One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor..

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