fathered

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

F'ATHERED, participle passive 1. Adopted; taken as one's own; ascribed to one as the author. 2. Having had a father of particular qualities. I am no stronger than my sex, being so father'd and so husbanded. [Unusual.]
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