fathen (fathen)

A name applied to various plants, especially to chenopodiaceous plants with fleshy leaves, as Che no podium album and C. Bonus- Henricus. In Australia a kind of indigenous spinach, perhaps Tetragon i a expansa. father (fä' Ther), n. [Early mod. E. and dial. also fader (in father, as in mother, the th, for ME. and AS. d, is modern, appar. due to conformation with brother, or with the Icel. forms fadhir, mōdhir ); It. padre = Sp. padre = Pg. pae, pai, father, in lit. sense, padre, father, a priest, = Pr. pare, paer, paire = OF. peire, pere, F. père ) (see paternal, patron, patroon, padrone, etc., ult. ult. E. pastor, pasture, etc.), AS. foda, food, fed an, ME. feden, E. feed, from the same root: so a ME. writer derives the ME. form fader, feder, from feden, feed. Father is one of the terms of intimate relation ( father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter ) which occur with slight changes of form, and occasional gaps in the series, in nearly all the Aryan or Shak., Tempest, i. 2. Indo-European tongues.] 1. He who begets a child; the nearest male ancestor; a male parent: so called in relation to the child. Thereby thinks Acrisius to forego This doom that has been fated long ago, That by his daughter's son he shall be slain. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, I. 148. As the Greek colonies in Southern Italy came to bear the name of the Great Greece, so it may be that this newer England on the American continent is fated to be the Great England. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 25. fatal; fatality. fat a Morgan a (fätä môr-gänä). [It.; so called because supposed to be the work of a fairy or fay named Morgan a (It. fat a = E. fay3: see fay3, fairy ).] A name given to the mirage on the coasts of Italy and Sicily. See mirage. He preferred to create logical fat a morgan as for himself on this hither side, and laboriously solace himself with these. set apart by fate. Now, all the plagues that in the pendulous air Hang fated o'er men's faults, light on thy daughters! Shak ., Lear, iii. 4. Whereon, A treacherous army levied, one midnight Fated to the purpose, did Antonio open The gates of Milan.