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rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.

ine (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. -- Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northe…

ssassination, murder, or murderous assault. [Obs.] If I had made an assassinate upon your father. B. Jonson.

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

A father. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton.

One who begets; a father.

Obliged; beholden. [Obs.] I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] Drayton.

To bow in prayer, or in token of submission. While each to his great Father bends. Coleridge.

to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property. My heritage, which my dead father did bequeath to me. Shak.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

h terrible. Bacon. That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. Sir T. North.

r him which is so bright of blee. Lament. of Mary Magd. That boy has a strong blee of his father. Forby.

d (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters.

om the same stock; any descendant in such a line; as, the English branch of a family. His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock. Carew.

Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. Shak.

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a half brother, or brother of the half blood. Two of us in the churchyard lie, My sister and my brother. Wordsworth.