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Derivation

A leading or drawing off of water from a stream or source.

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Account 76% connected

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Beginning 76% connected

of Begin

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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Drawing 76% connected

of Draw

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Explanation 76% connected

The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in S…

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Illation 76% connected

The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; c…

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Inference 76% connected

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

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Inheritance 76% connected

The act or state of inheriting; as, the inheritance of an estate; the inheritance of mental or physical qualities.

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Origin 76% connected

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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Root 76% connected

To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.

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Source 76% connected

The act of rising; a rise; an ascent.

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Narrower term 5

Descent 76% connected

The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.

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Eponymy 76% connected

The derivation of the name of a race, tribe, etc., from that of a fabulous hero, progenitor, etc.

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Extraction 76% connected

The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a…

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Origin 76% connected

The first existence or beginning of anything; the birth.

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Pedigree 76% connected

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors.

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Come 74% connected

of Come

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Come 74% connected

of Come

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Deduct 74% connected

To lead forth or out.

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Deduct 74% connected

To lead forth or out.

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Derive 74% connected

To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into…

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Derive 74% connected

To turn the course of, as water; to divert and distribute into subordinate channels; to diffuse; to communicate; to transmit; -- followed by to, into…

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Crossbred 66% connected

Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.

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Crossbred 66% connected

Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.

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Synonym 4

Ancestry 92% connected

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

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Deriving 92% connected

of Derive

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Filiation 92% connected

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

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Lineage 92% connected

Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.

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