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Downwards :: Downwards (adv.) From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.

Motherland :: Motherland (n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.

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..

Home :: Home (n.) One's native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one's ancestors dwell or dwelt.

Ancestor :: Ancestor (n.) One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.

Posterity :: Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham..

Parricide :: Parricide (n.) The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.

Represent :: Represent (v. t.) To stand in the place of; to supply the place, perform the duties, exercise the rights, or receive the share, of; to speak and act with authority in behalf of; to act the part of (another); as, an heir represents his ancestor; an attorney represents his client in court; a member of Congress represents his district in Congress..

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..

Ancestorial :: Ancestorial (a.) Ancestral.

Agnatic :: Agnatic (a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

Household :: Household (n.) A line of ancestory; a race or house.

Patronymic :: Patronymic (a.) Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination..

Jacob :: "Jacob (n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel..

Atavic :: Atavic (a.) Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism..

Ascendant :: Ascendant (n.) An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant..

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

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..

Race :: Race (n.) The descendants of a common ancestor; a family, tribe, people, or nation, believed or presumed to belong to the same stock; a lineage; a breed..

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..

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