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.
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One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
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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.
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Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause.
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Ascent; height; elevation.
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Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.
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The head or leader of any body of men; a commander, as of an army; a head man, as of a tribe, clan, or family; a person in authority who directs the…
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One who conceives.
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Created; composed; begotten.
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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One who, or that which, leads or conducts; a guide; a conductor.
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A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
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One who originates.
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One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
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A presbyter elder; a minister
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To turn up the earth with the snout, as swine.
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A person well versed in theology; a professor of theology or divinity; a divine.
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A theologian.
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One who theologizes; a theologian.
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An inscription put over or upon anything as a name by which it is known.
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One who promotes or establishes a colony; a colonist.
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Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
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Diminutive of Dad.
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The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
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A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
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A shortened form of Papa.
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A child's word for father.
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The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient his…
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A small, sharp, quick explosive sound or report; as, to go off with a pop.
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To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
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To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
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To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father.
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One who begets; a father.
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One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.
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Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
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To produce by the union of the sexes; to beget.
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One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor.
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One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
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To beget; to procreate; to propagate; to produce (a being similar to the parent); to engender; as, every animal generates its own species.
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Jet, the mineral.
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A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
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A lord, master, or other person in authority. See Sir.
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