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Eunomian :: Eunomian (n.) A follower of Eunomius, bishop of Cyzicus (4th century A. D.), who held that Christ was not God but a created being, having a nature different from that of the Father..

Arian :: Arian (a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings..

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..

After :: After (prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father..

Fatherly :: Fatherly (a.) Of or pertaining to a father.

Uterine :: Uterine (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father..

Daddy Longlegs :: Daddy longlegs () A name applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs..

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

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

Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..

Patristics :: Patristics (n.) That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

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

Correlate :: Correlate (n.) One who, or that which, stands in a reciprocal relation to something else, as father to son; a correlative..

Father :: Father (n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man.

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

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..

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

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

Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer..

Transmission :: Transmission (n.) The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another..

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