Definition of father

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Father (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection..

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Father-lasher :: Father-lasher (n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach..
Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no father; fatherless; hence, born contrary to nature..
Saturn :: Saturn (n.) One of the elder and principal deities, the son of Coelus and Terra (Heaven and Earth), and the father of Jupiter. The corresponding Greek divinity was Kro`nos, later CHro`nos, Time..
Godson :: Godson (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.
Grandsire :: Grandsire (n.) Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor..
Great-grandmother :: Great-grandmother (n.) The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Spnsorial :: Sponsor (n.) One who at the baptism of an infant professore the christian faith in its name, and guarantees its religious education; a godfather or godmother..
Patristical :: Patristical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.
Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care..
Father :: Father (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.
Gossip :: Gossip (n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
Mameluco :: Mameluco (n.) A child born of a white father and Indian mother.
Analogue :: Analogue (n.) A word in one language corresponding with one in another; an analogous term; as, the Latin pater is the analogue of the English father..
Fatherless :: Fatherless (a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child..
Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit..
Forbear :: Forbear (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
Grandfather :: Grandfather (n.) A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.
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.)..
Father-in-law :: Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
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