Anagrams of: GRANDFATHERING

• To be, or act as, a grandfather to.

• To retain discontinued laws or rules for (a thing, person or organization previously affected by them).

• Exemption from new legislation or regulations.

• the father of your father or mother

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

• cause fear in

• mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays

• cause fear in

• a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny

• To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant

• To fix firmly into place

• a draft for the amount of a dishonored draft plus the costs and charges of drafting again