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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..

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..

Extraction :: Extraction (n.) Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended.

Milesian :: Milesian (a.) Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish..

Sherif :: Sherif (n.) A member of an Arab princely family descended from Mohammed through his son-in-law Ali and daughter Fatima. The Grand Shereef is the governor of Mecca.

Parsee :: Parsee (n.) One of the adherents of the Zoroastrian or ancient Persian religion, descended from Persian refugees settled in India; a fire worshiper; a Gheber..

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

Ancestor :: Ancestor (n.) One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father..

Lineally :: Lineally (adv.) In a lineal manner; as, the prince is lineally descended from the Conqueror..

Pali :: Pali (n.) A dialect descended from Sanskrit, and like that, a dead language, except when used as the sacred language of the Buddhist religion in Farther India, etc..

Descend :: Descend (v. t.) To go down upon or along; to pass from a higher to a lower part of; as, they descended the river in boats; to descend a ladder..

Atlantic :: Atlantic (a.) Descended from Atlas.

Descend :: Descend (v. i.) To come down to a lower, less fortunate, humbler, less virtuous, or worse, state or station; to lower or abase one's self; as, he descended from his high estate..

Gastraea :: Gastraea (n.) A primeval larval form; a double-walled sac from which, according to the hypothesis of Haeckel, man and all other animals, that in the first stages of their individual evolution pass through a two-layered structural stage, or gastrula form, must have descended. This idea constitutes the Gastraea theory of Haeckel. See Gastrula..

Tudor :: Tudor (a.) Of or pertaining to a royal line of England, descended from Owen Tudor of Wales, who married the widowed queen of Henry V. The first reigning Tudor was Henry VII.; the last, Elizabeth..

Descended :: Descended (imp. & p. p.) of Descen.

Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns..

Descendible :: Descendible (a.) Admitting descent; capable of being descended.

Cingalese :: Cingalese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Ceylon descended from its primitive inhabitant.

Descent :: Descent (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.

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