Dictionary Entry

pater

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ˈpeɪtə/Used In Literature ↓

Father

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Common Phrases

noster pater. paterfamilias paterpatriae pateret paterpater walter

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Poetry examples for “pater”

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Pater meus, Alex. Pope, omnibus bonis moribus praeditus obit, an. 1717.

So Luther thought the Pater-noster long,
When doom'd to say his beads and even-song;

drawing to a close, and that of Pater, Stevenson, Hardy
and Meredith was in its prime.

[224] So Dyce.--Old eds. "fathers hoord." ("_Durus_ pater.")

"Aelinon in silvis idem pater, aelinon, altis
Dicitur invita concinuisse lyra."

Exhereditari filium non potest pater, nisi eto.

God Give:to Meni. sot aaa ve he a eee
Homing . . aii) eater nell Pater Whe th Sane ake pias oe To

_'Jam satis terris nivis atque dirce
Grandinis misit Pater, et rubente,'_

SELPRUPRSINGR pater evelcn Tania) cei) Tyr tes tae old

And sold by M. COOPER in _Pater-noster-Row_. 1751.