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OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xx. 337 Se fæder is god of nanum gode, se sunu is god of þam fæder gode.

?a1430 T. Hoccleve Mother of God l. 114 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 55 The fadir god gan edifie (By his sone oonlygeten specially) To him an hows.

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iv. f. cxix/2 An olde sage father fole in Kent.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 458 That gray iniquity, that father ruffian . View more context for this quotation

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 454 From fruitfull Loignes of one old Father-stock.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 5 Fruites that..have a vertue given..to draw their Father-Tree to heav'n.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. i. 1 The first and father cause of Common Error. View more context for this quotation

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiii. 366 A like conceit there passeth of Melasigenes, alias Homer, the father Poet, that he pined away upon the Riddle of the fishermen. View more context for this quotation

1721 R. Samber tr. A. de La Motte 100 New Court Fables i. ii. 82 In this Calamity, what alas! what can the Father Bird [Fr. le Pere oiseau] now do?

1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxix. 119 The Father-ruffian of the band.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 182 Such [port] whose father-grape grew fat On Lusitanian summers.

1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 637 Love, only Love, can guide the creature Up to the Father-fount of Nature.

1845 C. Norton Child of Islands 132 The Father-widower..Strokes down his youngest child's long silken hair.

1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden I. 459 The father-dog was kept tame.

1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust (Boston ed.) II. iii. 283 The child in that bright season gaineth The father-strength.

1875 W. P. Mackay Grace & Truth (rev. ed.) 213 Christians have been made sons of such a Father-God.

1913 N. Y. State Hospitals Bull. (State Hospital Commission) 6 243 His defiance of his father is perhaps best expressed in his remarks about the sun (an archaic father symbol).

1920 T. P. Nunn Education xii. 146 The mother-sentiment appears, to be followed..by the father-sentiment.

1922 Internat. Jrnl. Psycho-anal. 3 206 A totem is, of course, as we know from Freud, a father-symbol.

2004 S. E. Linville Hist. Films, Women & Freud's Uncanny i. 38 This father-widower, haunted by the memory of his dead wife.

2010 N. Smith in P. Hardie & H. Moore Classical Literary Careers xii. 226 Marvell..did not murder his father poets in order to find his own voice so much as echo them within his own voice.

2011 T. Patterson Home Winemaking for Dummies ii. 31 This relative of Cabernet Sauvignon (genetically, Cabernet Franc is the father grape) has a similar flavor profile.