Father

·noun A senator of ancient Rome.

II. Father ·vt To provide with a father.

III. Father ·noun A respectful mode of address to an old man.

IV. Father ·vt To make one's self the father of; to Beget.

V. Father ·noun The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.

VI. Father ·noun One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.

VII. Father ·noun One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.

VIII. Father ·noun A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or family;

— in the plural, fathers, ancestors.

IX. Father ·noun One of the chief esslesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ;

— often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.

X. Father ·noun One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher.

XI. Father ·vt 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. ).

XII. Father ·noun 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.