#165.  Destroyer.—­ N. destroyer &c. (destroy &c. 162); cankerworm &c. (bane) 663; assassin &c. (killer) 361; executioner &c. (punish) 975; biblioclast[obs3], eidoloclast[obs3], iconoclast, idoloclast[obs3]; nihilist.

     #166.  Paternity.—­ N. paternity; parentage; consanguinity &c. 11.
     parent; father, sire, dad, papa, paterfamilias, abba[obs3]; genitor,
progenitor, procreator; ancestor; grandsire[obs3], grandfather; great-grandfather; fathership[obs3], fatherhood; mabap[obs3].
     house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line,
family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs.
     motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias[Lat],
grandmother. 
     Adj. paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear,
patriarchal. 
     Phr. avi numerantur avorum[Lat]; “happy he with such a mother”
[Tennyson]; hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo[Sp][obs3]; philosophia stemma non inspicit [Lat][Seneca].

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     #167.  Posterity.—­ N. posterity, progeny, breed, issue, offspring,
brood, litter, seed, farrow, spawn, spat; family, grandchildren, heirs; great-grandchild.
     child, son, daughter; butcha[obs3]; bantling, scion; acrospire[obs3],
plumule[obs3], shoot, sprout, olive-branch, sprit[obs3], branch; off-shoot, off-set; ramification; descendant; heir, heiress; heir-apparent, heir-presumptive; chip off the old block; heredity; rising generation.
     straight descent, sonship[obs3], line, lineage, filiation[obs3],
primogeniture. 
     Adj. filial; diphyletic[obs3]. 
     Phr. “the child is father of the man” [Wordsworth]; “the fruit doesn’t
fall far from the tree”, “like father, like son”.

     #168.  Productiveness —­ N. productiveness &c. adj.; fecundity,
fertility, luxuriance, uberty|.
     pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation,
procreation; superfetation.
     milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk
and honey; second crop, aftermath; aftercrop, aftergrowth[obs3]; arrish[obs3], eddish[obs3], rowen[obs3]; protoplasm; fertilization. 
     V. make -productive &c. adj.; fructify; procreate, generate,
fertilize, spermative[obs3], impregnate; fecundate, fecundify[obs3]; teem, multiply; produce &c. 161; conceive. 
     Adj. productive, prolific; teeming, teemful[obs3]; fertile, fruitful,
frugiferous[obs3], fruit-bearing; fecund, luxuriant; pregnant, uberous[obs3].
     procreant[obs3], procreative; generative, life-giving, spermatic;
multiparous; omnific[obs3], propagable.
     parturient &c. (producing) 161; profitable &c. (useful) 644.