Definition of father

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Father (n.) One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection..

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Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A collection of the Lives of the Fathers or other devout work read daily in monasteries.
Besayle :: Besayle (n.) A kind of writ which formerly lay where a great-grandfather died seized of lands in fee simple, and on the day of his death a stranger abated or entered and kept the heir out. This is now abolished..
Half Blood :: Half blood (n.) A person whose father and mother are of different races; a half-breed.
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..
Fathered :: Fathered (imp. & p. p.) of Fathe.
Grandpapa :: Grandpapa (n.) A grandfather.
Succeed :: Succeed (v. t.) To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer..
Peculium :: Peculium (n.) The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.
Fader :: Fader (n.) Father.
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..
Fathers-in-law :: Fathers-in-law (pl. ) of Father-in-la.
Tritheism :: Tritheism (n.) The opinion or doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct Gods..
Procreator :: Procreator (n.) One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.
Orphan :: Orphan (n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living..
Gloria :: Gloria (n.) A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches..
Pape :: Pape (n.) A spiritual father; specifically, the pope..
Godfather :: Godfather (v. t.) To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care.
Heteroousian :: Heteroousian (n.) One of those Arians who held that the Son was of a different substance from the Father.
Father :: Father (n.) A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest; also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a legislative assembly, etc..
Grand :: Grand (superl.) Standing in the second or some more remote degree of parentage or descent; -- generalIy used in composition; as, grandfather, grandson, grandchild, etc..
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