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Beaupere :: Beaupere (n.) A father.

Patriarch :: Patriarch (n.) The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses..

Great :: Great (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, 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..

Oratorian :: Oratorian (n.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory..

Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate..

Person :: Person (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis..

Father-in-law :: Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Origenism :: Origenism (n.) The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved..

Grandfather :: Grandfather (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

Godfather :: Godfather (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.

Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation..

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

Pape :: Pape (n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope..

Emancipate :: Emancipate (v. t.) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country..

Mameluco :: Mameluco (n.) A child born of a white father and Indian mother.

Heteroousian :: Heteroousian (n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.

Fathers-in-law :: Fathers-in-law (pl. ) of Father-in-la.

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

Uncle :: Uncle (n.) The brother of one's father or mother; also applied to an aunt's husband; -- the correlative of aunt in sex, and of nephew and niece in relationship..

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