Definition of father

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Father (n.) A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors..

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Father :: Father (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity..
Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..
Beget :: Beget (v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father..
Lucky Proach :: Lucky proach () See Fatherlasher.
Father :: Father (n.) One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent..
Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation..
Arian :: Arian (a.) Pertaining to Arius, a presbyter of the church of Alexandria, in the fourth century, or to the doctrines of Arius, who held Christ to be inferior to God the Father in nature and dignity, though the first and noblest of all created beings..
Favor :: Favor (n.) To resemble in features; to have the aspect or looks of; as, the child favors his father..
Father Longlegs :: Father longlegs () See Daddy longlegs, 2..
Heteroousian :: Heteroousian (n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
Granduncle :: Granduncle (n.) A father's or mother's uncle.
Gossip :: Gossip (n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
On :: On (prep.) Forward, in succession; as, from father to son, from the son to the grandson, and so on..
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father..
Father :: Father (v. t.) To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.)..
Stepchild :: Stepchild (n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
Macedonian :: Macedonian (n.) One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son..
Legitim :: Legitim (a.) The portion of movable estate to which the children are entitled upon the death of the father.
Steppe :: Stepparent (n.) Stepfather or stepmother.
Parricide :: Parricide (n.) Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor..
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