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Succession :: Succession (n.) The right to enter upon the possession of the property of an ancestor, or one near of kin, or one preceding in an established order..

Agnatic :: Agnatic (a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

Ancestorially :: Ancestorially (adv.) With regard to ancestors.

Ancestral :: Ancestral (a.) Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate..

Ancestorial :: Ancestorial (a.) Ancestral.

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To receive or take by birth; to have by nature; to derive or acquire from ancestors, as mental or physical qualities; as, he inherits a strong constitution, a tendency to disease, etc..

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

Ancestress :: Ancestress (n.) A female ancestor.

Family :: Family (v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.

Heir :: Heir (n.) One who receives any endowment from an ancestor or relation; as, the heir of one's reputation or virtues..

Parcenary :: Parcenary (n.) The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate which descends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.

Ancestor :: Ancestor (n.) An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse..

Clan :: Clan (n.) A tribe or collection of families, united under a chieftain, regarded as having the same common ancestor, and bearing the same surname; as, the clan of Macdonald..

Lar :: Lar (n.) A tutelary deity; a deceased ancestor regarded as a protector of the family. The domestic Lares were the tutelar deities of a house; household gods. Hence, Eng.: Hearth or dwelling house..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle..

Sarmatic :: Sarmatic (a.) Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and the Poles..

Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..

Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..

Ancestry :: Ancestry (n.) Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent..

Distance :: Distance (n.) Remoteness in succession or relation; as, the distance between a descendant and his ancestor..

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