Definition of father

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Father (v. t.) To make one's self the father of; to beget.

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Compaternity :: Compaternity (n.) The relation of a godfather to a person.
Fatherless :: Fatherless (a.) Without a known author.
Abba :: Abba (n.) Father; religious superior; -- in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch..
Patrimony :: Patrimony (n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor..
Grandsire :: Grandsire (n.) Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor..
Dad :: Dad (n.) Father; -- a word sometimes used by children.
Family :: Family (v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family..
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..
Filiation :: Filiation (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father..
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..
Africander :: Africander (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a colored mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers..
Fader :: Fader (n.) Father.
Fatherly :: Fatherly (a.) Of or pertaining to a father.
#NAME? :: -less () A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless..
Tresayle :: Tresayle (n.) A grandfather's grandfather.
Father-in-law :: Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.
Testimony :: Testimony (n.) Affirmation; declaration; as, these doctrines are supported by the uniform testimony of the fathers; the belief of past facts must depend on the evidence of human testimony, or the testimony of historians..
Traditive :: Traditive (a.) Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional..
Modalist :: Modalist (n.) One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity..
Steppe :: Stepparent (n.) Stepfather or stepmother.
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