Definition of father

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Father (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity..

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Forbear :: Forbear (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
Stepbrother :: Step- () A prefix used before father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, child, etc., to indicate that the person thus spoken of is not a blood relative, but is a relative by the marriage of a parent; as, a stepmother to X is the wife of the father of X, married by him after the death of the mother of X. See Stepchild, Stepdaughter, Stepson, etc..
Tresayle :: Tresayle (n.) A grandfather's grandfather.
Filoplume :: Filoplume (n.) A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.
Gossip :: Gossip (n.) A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.
Porphyrogenitism :: Porphyrogenitism (n.) The principle of succession in royal families, especially among the Eastern Roman emperors, by which a younger son, if born after the accession of his father to the throne, was preferred to an elder son who was not so born..
Patrician :: Patrician (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians..
Granduncle :: Granduncle (n.) A father's or mother's uncle.
Grandpapa :: Grandpapa (n.) A grandfather.
Beaupere :: Beaupere (n.) A father.
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..
Homoousian :: Homoousian (n.) One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicene creed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substance with the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian..
Father :: Father (n.) A senator of ancient Rome.
Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A great-grandfather.
Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..
Stepchild :: Stepchild (n.) A bereaved child; one who has lost father or mother.
Orbate :: Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.
Unfathered :: Unfathered (a.) Having no acknowledged father; hence, illegitimate; spurious; bastard..
On :: On (prep.) Forward, in succession; as, from father to son, from the son to the grandson, and so on..
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