father

A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).

My father was a strong influence on me.

The Pꝛouerbes of Solomon: A wiſe ſonne maketh a glad father: but a fooliſh sonne is the heauineſſe of his mother.

A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.

My friend Tony just became a father.

A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.

So Dauid ſlept with his fathers, and was buried in the citie of Dauid.

Therefoꝛe it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the pꝛomiſe might be ſure to all the ſeede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that alſo which is of the faith of Abꝛaham, who is the father of vs all,

A term of respectful address for an elderly man.

Come, father; you can sit here.

A term of respectful address for a priest.

Bless you, good father friar!

To be a father to; to sire.

Well go too, we'll haue no Baſtards liue, / Eſpecially ſince Charles muſt Father it.

To give rise to.

Cowards father Cowards & Baſe things Syre Bace;

To act as a father; to support and nurture.

I good youth, / And rather Father thee, then Maſter thee:

To provide with a father.

Thinke you, I am no ſtronger then my Sex / Being ſo Father'd, and ſo Husbanded?

The relations of the sexes were so loose and vague that children could not be fathered on any particular man.

To adopt as one's own.

Kept company with men of wit / Who often fathered what he writ.

God, the father of Creation.

God the Father, who eternally begets the Son.

One's father.

I will only do what Father asks.

One of the triune gods of the Horned God in Wicca, representing a man, younger than the elderly Sage and older than the boyish Master.

...and our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.

In respect to our Lord (God), these are the less known Master, Father, and Sage.