Definition of father

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Father (n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc..

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Picture :: Picture (n.) An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief..
Patrizate :: Patrizate (v. i.) To imitate one's father.
Person :: Person (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis..
Orphan :: Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living..
Filiation :: Filiation (n.) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..
Oratorian :: Oratorian (n.) See Fathers of the Oratory, under Oratory..
Father :: Father (n.) A respectful mode of address to an old man.
After :: After (prep.) In imitation of; in conformity with; after the manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father..
Generous :: Generous (a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father..
Orbate :: Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.
Heteroousian :: Heteroousian (n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To disclaim and expel from the family, as a father his child; to disown; to disinherit..
Filoplume :: Filoplume (n.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Parricide :: Parricide (n.) The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.
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..
Patripassian :: Patripassian (n.) One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preexistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian..
Primogenitor :: Primogenitor (n.) The first ancestor; a forefather.
Motherland :: Motherland (n.) The country of one's ancestors; -- same as fatherland.
Grandsire :: Grandsire (n.) Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor..
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