Definition of father

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Father (n.) One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers..

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Steppe :: Stepparent (n.) Stepfather or stepmother.
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..
Redemptorist :: Redemptorist (n.) One of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded in Naples in 1732 by St. Alphonsus Maria de Liquori. It was introduced onto the United States in 1832 at Detroit. The Fathers of the Congregation devote themselves to preaching to the neglected, esp. in missions and retreats, and are forbidden by their rule to engage in the instruction of youth..
Grandaunt :: Grandaunt (n.) The aunt of one's father or mother.
Father :: Father (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher..
Stepchild :: Stepbrother (n.) A brother by the marriage of one's father with the mother of another, or of one's mother with the father of another..
Generous :: Generous (a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father..
Patristical :: Patristical (a.) Of or pertaining to the Fathers of the Christian church.
Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation..
Compaternity :: Compaternity (n.) The relation of a godfather to a person.
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..
Great-grandmother :: Great-grandmother (n.) The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Uterine :: Uterine (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father..
Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate..
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..
Pape :: Pape (n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope..
Inherit :: Inherit (v. t.) To take by descent from an ancestor; to take by inheritance; to take as heir on the death of an ancestor or other person to whose estate one succeeds; to receive as a right or title descendible by law from an ancestor at his decease; as, the heir inherits the land or real estate of his father; the eldest son of a nobleman inherits his father's title; the eldest son of a king inherits the crown..
Patrician :: Patrician (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians..
Brother German :: Brother german () A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only..
Paternity :: Paternity (n.) The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity..
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