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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..

Patrician :: Patrician (n.) One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.

Fatherhood :: Fatherhood (n.) The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

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

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

Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature..

Protect :: Protect (v. t.) To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children..

Foster :: Foster (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood..

Godfather :: Godfather (n.) A man who becomes sponsor for a child at baptism, and makes himself a surety for its Christian training and instruction..

#NAME? :: -less () A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless..

Dad :: Dad (n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.

Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit..

Beget :: Beget (v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father..

Father :: Father (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity..

Fathership :: Fathership (n.) The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.

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

Godson :: Godson (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.

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

Noetian :: Noetian (n.) One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost..

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

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