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reverend
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reverend
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Reverend
(gcide) | Reverend \Rev"er*end\, a. [F. r['e]v['e]rend, L. reverendus, fr.
revereri. See Revere.]
Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear
and affection; venerable.
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A reverend sire among them came. --Milton.
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They must give good example and reverend deportment in
the face of their children. --Jer. Taylor.
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Note: This word is commonly given as a title of respect to
ecclesiastics. A clergyman is styled the reverend; a
dean, the very reverend; a bishop, the right reverend;
an archbishop, the most reverend.
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reverend
(wn) | reverend
adj 1: worthy of adoration or reverence [syn: reverend,
sublime]
n 1: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the
Christian Church [syn: clergyman, reverend, {man of the
cloth}] [ant: layman, layperson, secular]
2: a title of respect for a clergyman |
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Irreverend
(gcide) | Irreverend \Ir*rev"er*end\, a.
Irreverent. [Obs.]
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Immodest speech, or irreverend gesture. --Strype.
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Most Reverend Father in God
(gcide) | Father \Fa"ther\ (f[aum]"[th][~e]r), n. [OE. fader, AS.
f[ae]der; akin to OS. fadar, D. vader, OHG. fatar, G. vater,
Icel. fa[eth]ir Sw. & Dan. fader, OIr. athir, L. pater, Gr.
path`r, Skr. pitr, perh. fr. Skr. p[=a] protect. [root]75,
247. Cf. Papa, Paternal, Patriot, Potential,
Pablum.]
1. One who has begotten a child, whether son or daughter; a
generator; a male parent.
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A wise son maketh a glad father. --Prov. x. 1.
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2. A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor;
especially, a first ancestor; a founder of a race or
family; -- in the plural, fathers, ancestors.
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David slept with his fathers. --1 Kings ii.
10.
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Abraham, who is the father of us all. --Rom. iv. 16.
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3. One who performs the offices of a parent by maintenance,
affetionate care, counsel, or protection.
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I was a father to the poor. --Job xxix.
16.
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He hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all
his house. --Gen. xiv. 8.
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4. A respectful mode of address to an old man.
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And Joash the king of Israel came down unto him
[Elisha], . . . and said, O my father, my father!
--2 Kings
xiii. 14.
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5. A senator of ancient Rome.
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6. A dignitary of the church, a superior of a convent, a
confessor (called also father confessor), or a priest;
also, the eldest member of a profession, or of a
legislative assembly, etc.
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Bless you, good father friar ! --Shak.
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7. One of the chief ecclesiastical authorities of the first
centuries after Christ; -- often spoken of collectively as
the Fathers; as, the Latin, Greek, or apostolic Fathers.
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8. One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a
producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any
art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or
teacher.
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The father of all such as handle the harp and organ.
--Gen. iv. 21.
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Might be the father, Harry, to that thought. --Shak.
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The father of good news. --Shak.
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9. The Supreme Being and Creator; God; in theology, the first
person in the Trinity.
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Our Father, which art in heaven. --Matt. vi. 9.
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Now had the almighty Father from above . . .
Bent down his eye. --Milton.
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Adoptive father, one who adopts the child of another,
treating it as his own.
Apostolic father, Conscript fathers, etc. See under
Apostolic, Conscript, etc.
Father in God, a title given to bishops.
Father of lies, the Devil.
Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar.
Fathers of the city, the aldermen.
Father of the Faithful.
(a) Abraham. --Rom. iv. --Gal. iii. 6-9.
(b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors.
Father of the house, the member of a legislative body who
has had the longest continuous service.
Most Reverend Father in God, a title given to archbishops
and metropolitans, as to the archbishops of Canterbury and
York.
Natural father, the father of an illegitimate child.
Putative father, one who is presumed to be the father of an
illegitimate child; the supposed father.
Spiritual father.
(a) A religious teacher or guide, esp. one instrumental in
leading a soul to God.
(b) (R. C. Ch.) A priest who hears confession in the
sacrament of penance.
The Holy Father (R. C. Ch.), the pope.
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Reverend
(gcide) | Reverend \Rev"er*end\, a. [F. r['e]v['e]rend, L. reverendus, fr.
revereri. See Revere.]
Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear
and affection; venerable.
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A reverend sire among them came. --Milton.
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They must give good example and reverend deportment in
the face of their children. --Jer. Taylor.
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Note: This word is commonly given as a title of respect to
ecclesiastics. A clergyman is styled the reverend; a
dean, the very reverend; a bishop, the right reverend;
an archbishop, the most reverend.
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Reverendly
(gcide) | Reverendly \Rev"er*end*ly\, adv.
Reverently. [Obs.] --Foxe.
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Unreverend
(gcide) | Unreverend \Un*rev"er*end\, a.
1. Not reverend.
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2. Disrespectful; irreverent. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Very Reverend
(gcide) | Very \Ver"y\ (v[e^]r"[y^]), a. [Compar. Verier
(v[e^]r"[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Veriest.] [OE. verai, verray,
OF. verai, vrai, F. vrai, (assumed) LL. veracus, for L. verax
true, veracious, fr. verus true; akin to OHG. & OS. w[=a]r,
G. wahr, D. waar; perhaps originally, that is or exists, and
akin to E. was. Cf. Aver, v. t., Veracious, Verdict,
Verity.]
True; real; actual; veritable.
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Whether thou be my very son Esau or not. --Gen. xxvii.
21.
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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he
that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
--Prov. xvii.
9.
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The very essence of truth is plainness and brightness.
--Milton.
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I looked on the consideration of public service or
public ornament to be real and very justice. --Burke.
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Note: Very is sometimes used to make the word with which it
is connected emphatic, and may then be paraphrased by
same, self-same, itself, and the like. "The very hand,
the very words." --Shak. "The very rats instinctively
have quit it." --Shak. "Yea, there where very
desolation dwells." --Milton. Very is used occasionally
in the comparative degree, and more frequently in the
superlative. "Was not my lord the verier wag of the
two?" --Shak. "The veriest hermit in the nation."
--Pope. "He had spoken the very truth, and transformed
it into the veriest falsehood." --Hawthorne.
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Very Reverend. See the Note under Reverend.
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reverend dodgson
(wn) | Reverend Dodgson
n 1: English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of
mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he
wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [syn:
Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson,
Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] |
very reverend
(wn) | Very Reverend
n 1: a title of respect for various ecclesiastical officials (as
cathedral deans and canons and others) |
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