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"Section F, G and H"

Shak.


The father of good news.

Shak.


9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in
theology, the first person in the Trinity.


Our Father, which art in heaven.

Matt. vi. 9.


Now had the almighty Father from above . . .


Bent down his eye.
Milton.


Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of
another, treating it as his own.
-- Apostolic
father
, Conscript fathers, etc. See
under Apostolic, Conscript, etc.
-- Father
in God
, a title given to bishops. --
Father of lies, the Devil. --
Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at
the bar.
-- Fathers of the city, the
aldermen.
-- Father of the Faithful.
(a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-
9.
(b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his
successors.
-- Father of the house, the
member of a legislative body who has had the longest continuous
service.


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