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Definition
noun (English)
1. (Christianity) A member of a church council.Examples: "In proceeding in this fashion, the fathers assembled at Pisa were following the generally accepted canonistic teaching of the day […]"; "On the part of the fathers of the synod, over 50 bishops, from every continent, spoke on different ‘group forms’ of the lay apostolate, whereas about 38 fathers made their own interventions in writing to the General Secretary."; "Remember that the fathers of Vatican II had rejected the first draft of the constitution on revelation entirely."
2. (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.Examples: "Three generations of file are usually kept, being the grandfather, father and son files."; "The file from which the father was developed with the transaction files of the appropriate day is the grandfather."
verb (English)
1. (figuratively) To give rise to.Examples: "Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace;"figuratively
name (English)
1. (Christianity) God, the father of Creation.
2. (Christianity) God the Father, who eternally begets the Son.
3. (Wicca) One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.Examples: "...and our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage."; "In respect to our Lord (God), these are the less known Master, Father, and Sage."
noun (English)
1. (Christianity) A title given to priests.Examples: "Father Thomas was a good priest."; "Father Smith, the social action director of the archdiocese, and Father William Killian, executive editor of the archdiocesan weekly, went to Brownsville, joined the field workers in picketing, attended several rallies, and marched in an eight-mile “pilgrimage.” They were arrested by local authorities for trespassing on private property and sent back to San Antonio. When Fathers Smith and Killian returned to the valley in early 1967 in defiance of Lucey’s specific orders, Lucey removed Smith as social action director and demoted Killian and several other activist priests for violating protocol."
2. (Christianity) One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first centuries after Christ.Examples: "the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers"
3. (historical) A senator of Ancient Rome.Examples: "Claudius put a stop to these executions, and the Conscript Fathers, repenting, placed Gallienus among the divi , — which was equivalent to the maintenance of his acts."; "When Romulus had left the earth and had become a god, the Fathers met together and appointed intermediate kings from the senate, to reign in turn each for five days, in the place of the king, till a new king should be chosen."; "His duties were to command the army, to perform certain sacrifices (as high priest), and to preside over the assembly of the Fathers of the families, which was called the Senate, i. e. an assembly of old men (Senex)."historical
Definition source: Wiktionary