<OL TYPE="1"><LI>fathered, birth, nativity<LI>that which has been begotten, men of the same stock, a family<OL TYPE="a"><LI>the several ranks of natural descent, the successive members of a genealogy<LI>metaph. a group of men very like each other in endowments, pursuits, character<OL TYPE="1"><LI>esp. in a bad sense, a perverse nation</OL></OL><LI>the whole multitude of men living at the same time<LI>an age (i.e. the time ordinarily occupied be each successive generation), a space of 30 - 33 years</OL>