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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Father \Fa"ther\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fathered}; p. pr & vb n. {Fathering}.] 1. To make one's self the father of to beget. Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base. --Shak. 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.). Men of wit Often fathered what he writ. --Swift. 3. To provide with a father. [R.] Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded ? --Shak. {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.
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