Word Meanings - FOREFATHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day on

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One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor. Respecting your forefathers, you would have been taught to respect yourselves. Burke. Forefathers' Day, the anniversary of the day on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts . On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.

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• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• TAUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Teach. Etym: Note: See Teach.
• WOULDINGNESS
  Willingness; desire.
• WOULD-BE
  ' (as, a would-be poet.
• RESPECTABILITY
  The state or quality of being respectable; the state or quality which deserves or commands respect.
• ANCESTORIALLY
  With regard to ancestors.
• RESPECTIVELY
  1. As relating to each; particularly; as each belongs to each; as each refers to each in order; as, let each man respectively perform his duty. The impressions from the objects or the senses do mingle respectively every one with its kind. Bacon.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• GENEALOGY
  OF. genelogie, F. généalogie, L. genealogia, fr. Gr. genus) + 1. An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree. 2. Regular
• REMOTE
  Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. (more info) 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. Places remote enough are
• DEGREE
  A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
• RESPECTANT
  Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals.
• WOULD
  Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. Note: Would was formerly used also as the past participle of Will. Right as our Lord hath would. Chaucer.
• ANCESTORIAL
  Ancestral. Grote.
• RESPECTUOUS
  1. Respectful; as, a respectuous silence. Boyle. 2. Respectable. Knolles.
• RESPECTFUL
  Marked or characterized by respect; as, respectful deportment. With humble joi and with respectful fear. Prior. -- Re*spect"ful*ly, adv. -- Re*spect"ful*ness, n.
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• ANNIVERSARY
  Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day . See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.
• DISRESPECT
  Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.
• TERREMOTE
  An earthquake. Gower.
• IRRESPECTIVE
  1. Without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent; impartial; as, an irrespective judgment. According to this doctrine, it must be resolved wholly into the absolute, irrespective will of God. Rogers.
• BETAUGHT
  Delivered; committed in trust.
• SELF-TAUGHT
  Taught by one's own efforts.
• DISRESPECTIVE
  Showing want of respect; disrespectful. Bp. Hall.
• DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY; DIAMOND JUBILEE
  One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated.