Adoptive: alternatives and connections

To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit.

immunity to a particular disease that is not innate but has been acquired during life; immunity can be acquired by the development of…

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride's father’

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

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…

To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a st…

The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.

Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.

To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father.

The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.

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 sa…

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

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 esta…