Part 4195

<blockquote>Our <b>Father</b>, which art in heaven. <i>Matt. vi. 9.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Now had the almighty <b>Father</b> from above . . . Bent down his eye. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Adoptive father</col>, <cd>one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Apostolic father</col>, <col>Conscript fathers, etc.</col></mcol> <cd>See under <er>Apostolic</er>, <er>Conscript</er>, etc.</cd> -- <col>Father in God</col>, <cd>a title given to bishops.</cd> -- <col>Father of lies</col>, <cd>the Devil.</cd> -- <col>Father of the bar</col>, <cd>the oldest practitioner at the bar.</cd> -- <col>Fathers of the city</col>, <cd>the aldermen.</cd> -- <col>Father of the Faithful</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>Abraham. <i>Rom. iv.</i> <i>Gal. iii. 6-9.</i></cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.</cd> -- <col>Father of the house</col>, <cd>the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service.</cd> -- <col>Most Reverend Father in God</col>, <cd>a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York.</cd> -- <col>Natural father</col>, <cd>the father of an illegitimate child.</cd> -- <col>Putative father</col>, <cd>one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father.</cd> -- <col>Spiritual father</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld> <cd>A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance.</cd> -- <col>The Holy Father</col> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld>, <cd>the pope.</cd></cs>

<h1>Father</h1> <Xpage=545>

<hw>Fa"ther</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fathered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fathering</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make one's self the father of; to beget.</def>

<blockquote>Cowards <b>father</b> cowards, and base things sire base. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.).</def>

<blockquote>Men of wit Often <b>fathered</b> what he writ. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To provide with a father.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so <b>fathered</b> and so husbanded ? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><mcol><col>To father on</col> &or; <col>upon</col></mcol>, <cd>to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible.</cd> "Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be <i>fathered on<i> some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor." <i>Barrow</i>.</cs>

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<h1>Fatherhood</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fa"ther*hood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity.</def>

<h1>Father-in-law</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fa"ther-in-law`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Fathers-in-law</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to <i>son-in-law</i> and <i>daughter-in-law</i>.</def>

<note>&hand; A man who marries a woman having children already, is sometimes, though erroneously, called their <i>father-in-law</i>.</note>

<h1>Fatherland</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fa"ther*land"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Imitated fr. D. <ets>vaderland</ets>. See <er>Father</er>, and <er>Land</er>.]</ety> <def>One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.</def>

<h1>Father-lasher</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fa"ther-lash`er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A European marine fish (<spn>Cottus bubalis</spn>), allied to the sculpin; -- called also <altname>lucky proach</altname>.</def>

<h1>Fatherless</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fa"ther*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Destitute of a living father; <as>as, a <ex>fatherless</ex> child</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Without a known author.</def>

<i>Beau. & Fl.</i>

<h1>Fatherlessness</h1> <Xpage=546>

<hw>Fa"ther*less*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The state of being without a father.</def>

<h1>Fatherliness</h1> <Xpage=546>