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Africander :: Africander (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a colored mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers..

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

Sire :: Sire (n.) A father; the head of a family; the husband.

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

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..

Gossip :: Gossip (n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

Patripassian :: Patripassian (n.) One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian..

Brother :: Brother (n.) A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood..

Peculium :: Peculium (n.) The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.

Redemptorist :: Redemptorist (n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth..

Orphan :: Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living..

Stepson :: Stepsister (n.) A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.

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

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

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..

Fatherless :: Fatherless (a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child..

Gloria :: Gloria (n.) A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches..

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..

Parent :: Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother..

Paternity :: Paternity (n.) Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child..

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