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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..

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

Father :: Father (n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers..

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

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

Compaternity :: Compaternity (n.) The relation of a godfather to a person.

Tresayle :: Tresayle (n.) A grandfather's grandfather.

Half Blood :: Half blood () The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4..

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 respectful mode of address to an old man.

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

Legitim :: Legitim (a.) The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.

Aunt :: Aunt (n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

Filiation :: Filiation (n.) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.

Father :: Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.)..

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..

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

Stepchild :: Stepchild (n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.

Father-lasher :: Father-lasher (n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach..

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