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Father
F'ATHER, n. [L. pater. The primary sense is obvious.]
1. He who begets a child; in L. genitor or generator.
The father of a fool hath no joy. Prov 17.
2. The first ancestor; the progenitor of a race or family. Adam was the father of the human race. Abraham was the father of the Israelites.
3. The appellation of an old man, and a term of respect.
The king of Israel said to Elisha, my father shall I smite them? 2 Ki 6.
The servants of Naaman call him father. Elderly men are called fathers; as the fathers of a town or city. In the church, men venerable for age, learning and piety are called fathers, or reverend fathers.
4. The grandfather or more remote ancestor. Nebuchadnezzar is called the father of Belshazzar, though he was his grandfather. Dan 5.
5. One who feeds and supports or exercises paternal care over another. God is called the father of the fatherless.
Psa 118.
6. He who creates, invents, makes or composes any thing; the author, former or contriver; a founder, director or instructor. God as creator is the father of all men. John 8. Jabal was the father of such as dwell in tents; and Jubal of musicians. Gen 4. God is the father of spirits and of lights. Homer is considered as the father of epic poetry. Washington, as a defender and an affectionate and wise counselor, is called the father of his country. And see 1 Chr 2:51. 1 Chr 4:14. 1 Chr 9:35. Satan is called the father of lies; he introduced sin, and instigates men to sin. John 8. Abraham is called the father of believers. He was an early believer, and a pattern of faith and obedience. Rom 4.
7. Fathers, in the plural, ancestors.
David slept with his fathers. 1 Ki 2.
8. A father in law. So Heli is called the father of Joseph. Luke 3.
9. The appellation of the first person in the adorable Trinity.
Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Mat 28.
10. The title given to dignitaries of the church, superiors of convents, and to popish confessors.
11. The appellation of the ecclesiastical writers of the first centuries, as Polycarp, Jerome, etc.
12. The title of a senator in ancient Rome; as conscript fathers.
Adoptive father, he who adopts the children of another, and acknowledges them as his own.
Natural father, the father of illegitimate children.
Putative father, one who is only reputed to be the father; the supposed father.
father appears in definitions for these words:
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A Ab Abba Abdicate About Acacians Acknowledge Adjutant Administrator Adoption Adoptive Advocate Again Agnate Agnation All Allow Ancestor Antitype Any Apostolic Arian Arms Asleep Asmonean Aunt Baptize Beget Begetter Bestowment Betroth Betrothing Bishop Blood Breeding Brother Careful Change Charity Chime Cleave Coessential Cognation Collateral Comforter Commend Compass Compassion Concernment Confess Connive Conscript Consubstantial Consubstantiality Convey Correlate Correlative Course Covenant Cup Daddy Damianists Darling Day Dealing Death Deceitfully Deceive Deceiver Defense Depart Descend Descent Design Direct Disallow Discourage Disdain Disinherit Disposal Dispose Doctor Each Ease Edit Elope Elopement Eloping Emancipate Embalm Emblaze Enjoy Enough Epiphany Exact Exalt Exheredation F Fall Father Father-in-law Fathered Fatherhood Fathering Fatherless Fatherlessness Fatherliness Fatherly Favor Feed Fetch Filiation Flesh Flying-pinion For Forcible Forgive Forisfamiliation Fortune Foster-child Foster-father Friar Gavelkind Gender Generous Genitive Genitor Ghostly Glad Glorify Glory Good Government Grandfather Grandmother Great Grief Halfblood Hand Hate Have Heavy Heir Herein Hinder Homily Honor Honorable Hypostasis Imbosom Impotence Imprint Incapability Inherit Inheritance Inofficious Inquisition Interpose Judgment Keen Kimbo Label Leather-seller Legacy Less Like Little Live Manifesto Manna Mansion Many Master Mean Mind Misbecome Monstrosity Mummer Near Notwithstanding Obscure Of On Orbate Origenist Orphan Otherwise Owe Papa Parent Parricidal Part Partake Partaker Pass Paternal Paternity Paternoster Patriarch Patrician Patrimony Patriot Patristic Patron Patronymic People Perfect Peril Picture Pity Plead Pluck Political Posthumous Pray Prerogative Priest Prime Primitive Primogenitor Primogeniture Privy Procreator Profuse Prognosticate Promise Protect Protector Provoke Punish Putative Race Ready Rear Reason Reign Rejoice Relation Remain Repossess Restore Retain Revere Reverence Reverend Revive Reward Rigid Rule Rumor Sainted Saturn Sea-scorpion Seemingly Semi-arian Semi-arianism Set Share Shield Shock Show Side Sign Simple Sink Sire So Sojourner Solicit Son Spare Speak Stand Step-father Stock Strict Substantially Succede Succeeding Succor Suffer Suffice Supplication Surety Take Temper Tend Testamentary Testimony Than Them They Thick Think Thrifty Throne Thrust Tilt Time Tradition Traditional Traditionary Traditive Traffick Tragedy Transmission Trespass Trinity Trudge Tye Uncle Unfathered Unfatherly Unitarian Unnatural Urge Uterine Villanize Visit Volubility Vow Wait Wake Wander Well-water Whether Work Worship Wretchedness Your
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