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Fast (?), adv. [OE. faste firmly, strongly, quickly, AS. fæste. See , a.] 1. In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
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We will bind thee fast. Judg. xv. 13.
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2. In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
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Coloq. Fast by , or Coloq. Fast beside , close or near to; near at hand.
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He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk
Into the wood fast by. Milton.
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Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. Pope.
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Fast, n. That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
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fastball n. (Baseball) a baseball thrown with maximum velocity.
Syn. -- heater, smoke, hummer, bullet.
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fastbreak n. (basketball) a rapid dash to get a shot at one's own basket as soon as possible after taking possession of the ball; -- often occurring after the opposing team has shot at their basket.
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Fasten (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fastened (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fastening (?).] [AS. fæstnian; akin to OHG. festinōn. See , a.] 1. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
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2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
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The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with very different ideas fastened to them. Swift.
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3. To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow. [Obs.] Dryden.
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If I can fasten but one cup upon him. Shak.
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Coloq. To fasten a charge upon or Coloq. To fasten a crime upon , to make his guilt certain, or so probable as to be generally believed. -- Coloq. To fasten one's eyes upon , to look upon steadily without cessation. Acts iii. 4.

Syn. -- To fix; cement; stick; link; affix; annex.
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Fasten, v. i. To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
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A horse leech will hardly fasten on a fish. Sir T. Browne.
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fastened adj. 1. affixed. Opposite of unaffixed.
Syn. -- secured.
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2. secured against opening; -- of doors, hatches, etc.
Syn. -- latched.
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Fastener (?), n. One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
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Fastening (?), n. Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
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Faster (?), n. One who abstains from food.
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fast-flying adj. moving or functioning quickly and energetically; as, a fast-flying messenger.
Syn. -- fast flying, hurrying, speedy.
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fast-growing adj. tending to spread quickly; -- used mostly of plants. [prenominal] [Narrower terms: invasive (vs. noninvasive) ]
Syn. -- aggressive.
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Fast-handed (?), a. Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. [Obs.] Bacon.
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Fasti (?), n. pl. [L.] 1. The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.
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2. Records or registers of important events.
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Fastidiosity (?), n. Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] Swift.
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Fastidious (?), a. [L. fastidiosus disdainful, fr. fastidium loathing, aversion, perh. fr. fastus arrogance (of uncertain origin) + taedium loathing. Cf. , .] Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.
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Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

Syn. -- Squeamish; critical; overnice; difficult; punctilious. -- , . We call a person fastidious when his taste or feelings are offended by trifling defects or errors; we call him squeamish when he is excessively nice or critical on minor points, and also when he is overscrupulous as to questions of duty. “Whoever examines his own imperfections will cease to be fastidious; whoever restrains his caprice and scrupulosity will cease to be squeamish.” Crabb.

-- Fastidiously, adv. -- Fastidiousness, n.

{ Fastigiate (?), Fastigiated (?), } a. [L. fastigium gable end, top, height, summit.] 1. Narrowing towards the top.
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2. (Bot.) Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
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3. (Zoöl.) United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
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Fastish (?), a. Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
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Fastly, adv. Firmly; surely.
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Fastness, n. [AS. fæstnes, fr. fæst fast. See , a.] 1. The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.
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All . . . places of fastness [are] laid open. Sir J. Davies.
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2. A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.
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3. Conciseness of style. [Obs.] Ascham.
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4. The state of being fast or swift.
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Fastuous (?), a. [L. fastuosus, from fastus haughtiness, pride: cf. F. fastueux.] Proud; haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Barrow. -- Fastuousness, n. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
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Fat (?), n. [See , n.] 1. A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.]
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The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24.
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2. A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities. [Obs.] Hebert.
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Fat, a. [Compar. Fatter (?); superl. Fattest (?).] [AS. fǣtt; akin to D. vet, G. fett, feist, Icel. feitr, Sw. fet, Dan. fed, and perh. to Gr. pi^dax spring, fountain, pidyein to gush forth, piwn fat, Skr. pi to swell.] 1. Abounding with fat; as: (a) Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox. (b) Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.
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2. Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
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Making our western wits fat and mean. Emerson.
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Make the heart of this people fat. Is. vi. 10.
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3. Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.
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4. Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.
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Now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk. Carlyle.
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5. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate. [Obs.]
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Persons grown fat and wealthy by long impostures. Swift.
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6. (Typog.) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.
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Coloq. Fat lute , a mixture of pipe clay and oil for filling joints.
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Fat (?), n. 1. (Physiol. Chem.) An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under .
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☞ Animal fats are composed mainly of three distinct fats, tristearin, tripalmitin, and triolein, mixed in varying proportions. As olein is liquid at ordinary temperatures, while the other two fats are solid, it follows that the consistency or hardness of fats depends upon the relative proportion of the three individual fats. During the life of an animal, the fat is mainly in a liquid state in the fat cells, owing to the solubility of the two solid fats in the more liquid olein at the body temperature. Chemically, fats are composed of fatty acid, as stearic, palmitic, oleic, etc., united with glyceryl. In butter fat, olein and palmitin predominate, mixed with another fat characteristic of butter, butyrin. In the vegetable kingdom many other fats or glycerides are to be found, as myristin from nutmegs, a glyceride of lauric acid in the fat of the bay tree, etc.
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2. The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.
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3. (Typog.) Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.
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Coloq. Fat acid . (Chem.) See Sebacic acid, under . -- Coloq. Fat series , Coloq. Fatty series (Chem.), the series of the paraffine hydrocarbons and their derivatives; the marsh gas or methane series. -- Coloq. Natural fats (Chem.), the group of oily substances of natural occurrence, as butter, lard, tallow, etc., as distinguished from certain fatlike substance of artificial production, as paraffin. Most natural fats are essentially mixtures of triglycerides of fatty acids.
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Fat, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fatted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. atting (?).] [OE. fatten, AS. fǣttian. See , a., and cf. .] To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.
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We fat all creatures else to fat us. Shak.
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Fat, v. i. To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.
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An old ox fats as well, and is as good, as a young one. Mortimer.
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Fatal, a. [L. fatalis, fr. fatum: cf. F. fatal. See .] 1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. [R.]
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These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson.
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It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon.
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2. Foreboding death or great disaster. [R.]
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That fatal screech owl to our house
That nothing sung but death to us and ours. Shak.
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3. Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.
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Fatalism (?), n. [Cf. F. fatalisme.] The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
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Fatalist (?), n. [Cf. F. fataliste.] One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
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Fatalistic (?), a. Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
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Fatality (?), n.;pl. Fatalities (#). [L. fatalitas: cf. F. fatalité] 1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.
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The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.
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2. The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.
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The year sixty-three is conceived to carry with it the most considerable fatality. Ser T. Browne.
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By a strange fatality men suffer their dissenting. Eikon Basilike.
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3. That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event. Dryden.
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Fatally (?), adv. 1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley.
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2. In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
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Fatalness, n. Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
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Fata Morgana (?). [It.; -- so called because this phenomenon was looked upon as the work of a fairy (It. fata) of the name of Morgána. See .] A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.
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Fatback (?), n. (Zoöl.) The menhaden.
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Fat-brained (?), a. Dull of apprehension.
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Fate (fāt), n. [L. fatum a prophetic declaration, oracle, what is ordained by the gods, destiny, fate, fr. fari to speak: cf. OF. fat. See , , , and cf. 1st , .] 1. A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
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Necessity and chance
Approach not me; and what I will is fate. Milton.
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Beyond and above the Olympian gods lay the silent, brooding, everlasting fate of which victim and tyrant were alike the instruments. Froude.
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2. Appointed lot; allotted life; arranged or predetermined event; destiny; especially, the final lot; doom; ruin; death.
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The great, th'important day, big with the fate
Of Cato and of Rome. Addison.
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Our wills and fates do so contrary run
That our devices still are overthrown. Shak.
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The whizzing arrow sings,
And bears thy fate, Antinous, on its wings. Pope.
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3. The element of chance in the affairs of life; the unforeseen and unestimated conitions considered as a force shaping events; fortune; esp., opposing circumstances against which it is useless to struggle; as, fate was, or the fates were, against him.
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A brave man struggling in the storms of fate. Pope.
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Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams. B. Taylor.
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4. pl. [L. Fata, pl. of fatum.] (Myth.) The three goddesses, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, sometimes called the Destinies, or Parcæwho were supposed to determine the course of human life. They are represented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.
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☞ Among all nations it has been common to speak of fate or destiny as a power superior to gods and men -- swaying all things irresistibly. This may be called the fate of poets and mythologists. Philosophical fate is the sum of the laws of the universe, the product of eternal intelligence and the blind properties of matter. Theological fate represents Deity as above the laws of nature, and ordaining all things according to his will -- the expression of that will being the law. Krauth-Fleming.

Syn. -- Destiny; lot; doom; fortune; chance.
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Fated (?), p. p. & a. 1. Decreed by fate; destined; doomed; as, he was fated to rule a factious people.
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One midnight
Fated to the purpose. Shak.
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2. Invested with the power of determining destiny. [Obs.] “The fated sky.” Shak.
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3. Exempted by fate. [Obs. or R.] Dryden.
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Fateful (?), a. . Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. “The fateful steel.” J. Barlow.
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2. Significant of fate; ominous.
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The fateful cawings of the crow. Longfellow.

-- Fatefully, adv.- Fatefulness, n.
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fat-free adj. containing no fat; -- of foods. Opposite of fat-containing.
Syn. -- fatless, nonfat.
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Fathead (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) A cyprinoid fish of the Mississippi valley (Pimephales promelas); -- called also black-headed minnow. (b) A labroid food fish of California; the redfish.
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fatheaded adj. same as . Opposite of smart. [informal]
Syn. -- blockheaded, boneheaded, loggerheaded, thick, thickheaded, thick-skulled, wooden-headed.
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Father (fä�ẽr), n. [OE. fader, AS. fæder; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater, Icel. faðir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr. pathr, Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. pā protect. √75, 247. Cf. , , , , .] 1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a generator; a male parent.
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A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1.
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2. 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.
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David slept with his fathers. 1 Kings ii. 10.
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Abraham, who is the father of us all. Rom. iv. 16.
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3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance, affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
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I was a father to the poor. Job xxix. 16.
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He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house. Gen. xiv. 8.
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4. A respectful mode of address to an old man.
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And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him [Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father! 2 Kings xiii. 14.
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5. A senator of ancient Rome.
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6. 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.
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Bless you, good father friar ! Shak.
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7. One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
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8. 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.
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The father of all such as handle the harp and organ. Gen. iv. 21.
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Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. Shak.
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The father of good news. Shak.
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9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first person in the Trinity.
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Our Father, which art in heaven. Matt. vi. 9.
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Now had the almighty Father from above . . .
Bent down his eye. Milton.
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Coloq. Adoptive father , one who adopts the child of another, treating it as his own. -- Coloq. Apostolic father , Coloq. Conscript fathers, etc. See under , , etc. -- Coloq. Father in God , a title given to bishops. -- Coloq. Father of lies , the Devil. -- Coloq. Father of the bar , the oldest practitioner at the bar. -- Coloq. Fathers of the city , the aldermen. -- Coloq. Father of the Faithful . (a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. -- Coloq. Father of the house , the member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous service. -- Coloq. Most Reverend Father in God , a title given to archbishops and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and York. -- Coloq. Natural father , the father of an illegitimate child. -- Coloq. Putative father , one who is presumed to be the father of an illegitimate child; the supposed father. -- Coloq. Spiritual father . (a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in leading a soul to God. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the sacrament of penance. -- Coloq. The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.
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Father (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fathered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Fathering.] 1. To make one's self the father of; to beget.
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Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. Shak.
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2. 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.).
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Men of wit
Often fathered what he writ. Swift.
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3. To provide with a father. [R.]
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Think you I am no stronger than my sex,
Being so fathered and so husbanded ? Shak.
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Coloq. To father on or Coloq. To father upon , to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. “Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor.” Barrow.
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Father-God n. God, when considered as the first person in the Trinity.
Syn. -- Father.
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