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Definition of Fathered
1. father [v] - See also: father
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fathered
Literary usage of Fathered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by John Payne Collier (1865)
"Dobson's Dry Bobs " is merely a collection of low, stupid, and often coarse jokes,
not a few of them of long-established reputation, but fathered as infants ..."
2. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"A Book falsely fathered on Isaac Casaubon. The Falsehood detected, yet still
continued. AD 1624. A book was translated out of the French copy, ..."
3. War's Brighter Side: The Story of "The Friend" Newspaper Edited by the by Julian Ralph (1901)
"... WAR'S BRIGHTER SIDE CHAPTER I THE BIRTH OF " THE FRIEND " Showing how it was
fathered by a Field Marshal, sponsored by a Duke and three Lords, ..."
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