transitive verb.
To exempt (someone or something) from a new regulation that prohibits or restricts something.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent: correlative to grandson, granddaughter, and grandchild.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
A father's or mother's father; an ancestor immediately after the father or mother in lineal ascent.
verb.
To retain existing laws or rules only for those people or organisations that were previously affected by them, and apply new laws or rules to the unaffected people or organisations.
noun.
A father of someone’s parent.
noun.
A male forefather.
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noun.
the father of your father or mother
Word Usage
"For example, whereas the Hebrew phrase for my grandfather' was sav-í grandfather + 1st person singular possessive', in Israeli it is sába shel-ì grandfather of me'."