Definition of father

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Father (v. t.) To provide with a father.

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Half Blood :: Half blood () The relation between persons born of the same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4..
Origenism :: Origenism (n.) The opinions of Origen of Alexandria, who lived in the 3d century, one of the most learned of the Greek Fathers. Prominent in his teaching was the doctrine that all created beings, including Satan, will ultimately be saved..
Parent :: Parent (n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother..
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) Hence, that which is transmitted orally from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; knowledge or belief transmitted without the aid of written memorials; custom or practice long observed..
Lucky Proach :: Lucky proach () See Fatherlasher.
Fatherlessness :: Fatherlessness (n.) The state of being without a father.
Affiliation :: Affiliation (n.) The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation..
Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To arrange (different coats of arms) upon one escutcheon, as when a man inherits from both father and mother the right to bear arms..
Father :: Father (n.) The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity..
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..
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..
Primogeniture :: Primogeniture (a.) The exclusive right of inheritance which belongs to the eldest son. Thus in England the right of inheriting the estate of the father belongs to the eldest son, and in the royal family the eldest son of the sovereign is entitled to the throne by primogeniture. In exceptional cases, among the female children, the crown descends by right of primogeniture to the eldest daughter only and her issue..
Reverence :: Reverence (n.) A person entitled to be revered; -- a title applied to priests or other ministers with the pronouns his or your; sometimes poetically to a father.
Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A great-grandfather.
Fathers-in-law :: Fathers-in-law (pl. ) of Father-in-la.
Half Blood :: Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.
Concubine :: Concubine (n.) A wife of inferior condition; a lawful wife, but not united to the man by the usual ceremonies, and of inferior condition. Such were Hagar and Keturah, the concubines of Abraham; and such concubines were allowed by the Roman laws. Their children were not heirs of their father..
Father-lasher :: Father-lasher (n.) A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach..
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..
Fathership :: Fathership (n.) The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
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