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3. To provide with a father. [R.]

Think you I am no stronger than my sex,

Being so fathered and so husbanded ?

To father on or 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.

Fa"ther*hood (?), n. The state of
being a father; the character or authority of a father;
paternity.

Fa"ther-in-law` (?), n.; pl.
Fathers-in-law (&?;). The father of one's
husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-
in-law.

&fist; A man who marries a woman having children already, is
sometimes, though erroneously, called their father-in-law.

Fa"ther*land" (?), n. [Imitated fr. D.
vaderland. See Father, and Land.] One's
native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.


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