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Inheritance :: Inheritance (n.) A perpetual or continuing right which a man and his heirs have to an estate; an estate which a man has by descent as heir to another, or which he may transmit to another as his heir; an estate derived from an ancestor to an heir in course of law..

Atavism :: Atavism (n.) The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two..

Downwards :: Downwards (adv.) From a remote time; from an ancestor or predecessor; from one to another in a descending line.

Jacob :: "Jacob (n.) A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel..

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

House :: House (n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred; a race of persons from the same stock; a tribe; especially, a noble family or an illustrious race; as, the house of Austria; the house of Hanover; the house of Israel..

Isis :: Isis (n.) The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the great benefactress of their country, who instructed their ancestors in the art of agriculture..

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

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

Root :: Root (n.) An ancestor or progenitor; and hence, an early race; a stem..

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..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal..

Descent :: Descent (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction..

Manes :: Manes (n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors..

Ugrian :: Ugrian (n. pl.) A Mongolian race, ancestors of the Finns..

Father :: Father (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors..

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

Tradition :: Tradition (n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed..

Consanguineous :: Consanguineous (a.) Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor.

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