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parental, a.|pəˈrɛntəl|
[ad. L. parentāl-is: see parent and -al1. Cf. obs. F. parental (16th c. in Godef.).]
1. Of or pertaining to a parent; characteristic of or resembling a parent; fatherly or motherly.
1623Cockeram, Parentall, of or belonging to the parents. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 143 It overthrows the carefull course, and parentall provision of nature. 1798Malthus Popul. (1806) II. iv. vii. 399 One of the most delightful passions in human nature—parental affection. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. vi, The finger pressed on the parental lip warned him to silence. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. vii. 159 The early English held almost Roman notions on the nature of parental authority.
2. Of the nature of a parent; fig. that is the source or origin from which something springs.
1647Ward Simp. Cobler 15 If I can but finde the parentall root, or formall reason of a Truth, I am quiet. 1727–46Thomson Summer 577 To Parental Nature pay The tears of grateful joy. 1813W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXI. 477 The first appendix..attempts to shew that it [Sanscrit] is parental to the Low-Dutch and other Gothic Dialects of Europe. 1877Owen Mrq. Wellesley's Desp. p. xxiii, The principal, and (so to speak) parental agent in that scheme. 1904H. Brierley in Chr. World 11 Feb. 22/5 When the nesting season is over, the parental robins retire to the thickest woods and copses.
Hence parentality |pærənˈtælɪtɪ|, the state or condition of being a parent, parenthood; paˈrentally adv., in the manner of a parent.
1780Bentham Princ. Legisl. xvi. §50 It involves in it divestment of parentality; to wit, of paternity, or of maternity, or of both. 1801W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XII. 578 He absolves debauchery from the cares of parentality. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 197 Whatever rights the king enjoys as elector, have been always parentally exercised. 1837Sir F. B. Head 19 Dec. in Narrative ix. (1839) 319, I parentally called upon them [the Canadian rebel leaders], as their Governor, to avoid the effusion of human blood. |