Definition of father

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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.)..

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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..
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..
Paternal :: Paternal (a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate..
Father :: 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..
Fathers-in-law :: Fathers-in-law (pl. ) of Father-in-la.
Succession :: Succession (n.) The power or right of succeeding to the station or title of a father or other predecessor; the right to enter upon the office, rank, position, etc., held ny another; also, the entrance into the office, station, or rank of a predecessor; specifically, the succeeding, or right of succeeding, to a throne..
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..
#NAME? :: -less () A privative adjective suffix, denoting without, destitute of, not having; as witless, childless, fatherless..
Orbate :: Orbate (a.) Bereaved; fatherless; childless.
Uranus :: Uranus (n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans..
Godfather :: Godfather (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.
Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation..
Fatherly :: Fatherly (a.) Like a father in affection and care; paternal; tender; protecting; careful.
Noetian :: Noetian (n.) One of the followers of Noetus, who lived in the third century. He denied the distinct personality of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost..
Protect :: Protect (v. t.) To cover or shield from danger or injury; to defend; to guard; to preserve in safety; as, a father protects his children..
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..
Label :: Label (n.) A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points, usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish an eldest or only son while his father is still living..
Generous :: Generous (a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father..
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..
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