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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Rigid :: Rigid (a.) Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence..
Hypostasis :: Hypostasis (n.) Substance; subsistence; essence; person; personality; -- used by the early theologians to denote any one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit..
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..
Forefather :: Forefather (n.) One who precedes another in the line of genealogy in any degree, but usually in a remote degree; an ancestor..
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..
Foster :: Foster (v. t.) Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood..
Forbear :: Forbear (n.) An ancestor; a forefather; -- usually in the plural.
Great :: Great (superl.) Older, younger, or more remote, by single generation; -- often used before grand to indicate one degree more remote in the direct line of descent; as, great-grandfather (a grandfather's or a grandmother's father), great-grandson, etc..
Uterine :: Uterine (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father..
Father :: Father (v. t.) To provide with a father.
Testamentary :: Testamentary (a.) Done, appointed by, or founded on, a testament, or will; as, a testamentary guardian of a minor, who may be appointed by the will of a father to act in that capacity until the child becomes of age..
Quarrel :: Quarrel (n.) A breach of concord, amity, or obligation; a falling out; a difference; a disagreement; an antagonism in opinion, feeling, or conduct; esp., an angry dispute, contest, or strife; a brawl; an altercation; as, he had a quarrel with his father about expenses..
Grandfatherly :: Grandfatherly (a.) Like a grandfather in age or manner; kind; benignant; indulgent.
Godfather :: Godfather (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.
Gavelkind :: Gavelkind (n.) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent..
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..
Patrician :: Patrician (n.) One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.
Grandmother :: Grandmother (n.) The mother of one's father or mother.
Adoptive :: Adoptive (a.) Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language..
Father :: Father (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity..
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