Definition of father

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

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Steppe :: Stepparent (n.) Stepfather or stepmother.
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.
Heteroousian :: Heteroousian (n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
Grandsire :: Grandsire (n.) Specifically, a grandfather; more generally, any ancestor..
Fatherland :: Fatherland (n.) One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.
Beget :: Beget (v. t.) To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father..
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..
Great-grandmother :: Great-grandmother (n.) The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Father :: Father (n.) A senator of ancient Rome.
Filiation :: Filiation (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father..
Uranus :: Uranus (n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans..
Godson :: Godson (n.) A male for whom one has stood sponsor in baptism. See Godfather.
Tradition :: Tradition (n.) The unwritten or oral delivery of information, opinions, doctrines, practices, rites, and customs, from father to son, or from ancestors to posterity; the transmission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials..
Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
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..
Great-grandfather :: Great-grandfather (n.) The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
Agnate :: Agnate (a.) Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor..
Beaupere :: Beaupere (n.) A father.
Patristics :: Patristics (n.) That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To argue in support of a claim, or in defense against the claim of another; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father..
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