Fathers (title)

Father is a much-employed term that is used in various ways; as:

of angling

Isaak Walton, author of The Compleat Angler

of Ecclesiastical History

The name given to Eusebius of Cæsarea

of English Cathedral Music

A name generally given to Thomas Tallis or Tallys (1515-85), organist of Waltham Abbey, gentleman of the chapel royal, and composer of Service in the Dorian Mode.

of English Poetry

A title applied by Dryden to Chaucer

of English Prose

A title given to Roger Ascham

of Epic Poetry

A name given to Homer, as the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey

of French History

André Duchesne, one of the earliest French historians

of German Literature

A title applied to Lessing as the leader in receiving in reviving a national German literature

of Good Works

Sultan Muhammed II of Turkey

of Greek Music

Terpander of Lesbos

of Greek Tragedy

The title given to Æschylus

of History

The name given to Herodotus, as the first writer of real history

of Jests

Joseph Miller

of Letters

1. A title bestowed on Francis I of France 2. Lorenzo de' Medici

of Lies

Satan. The title has been used of Herodotus, from disbelief in the stories he relates

of Medicine

A title given to Hippocrates

of Moral Philosophy

A surname of Thomas Aquinas

of Music

A name given to Palestrina

of Orthodoxy

A title applied to Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, for his zeal in combating the Arian heresy

of Peace

A title given to Andrea Doria by the Genoese

of Ridicule

A surname of François Rabelais

of the Faithful

A title given to Abraham, as the ancestor of the Jewish nation

of the Marshalsea (a former prison in Southwark, London)

William Dorritt, in Charles Dickens's Little Dorritt

of the People

A title assumed by the kings of Denmark and by Louis XII, Henry IV, and Louis XVIII of France

of Waters

A name given to the Mississippi River, on account of its great length and numerous tribitutaries

Others

• Father Prout, The nom de plume of Francis Mahony
• The Apostolic Fathers, The six fathers of the Church who were contemporaries of the Apostles; Barnabas, Clement of Rome, Hermas, Ignatius, Papias, and Polycarp
• Fathers and Sons, A novel by Turgenev, a presentation of theoretic nihilism
• Fathers of Mary, The Society of Marists, approved by Pope Leo XIII in 1891
• Fathers of Mercy, A religious congregation of the Catholic Church, approved by the Pope in 1834
• Fathers of the Church, A title of honor applied to the early writers of the Christian Church
• Founding Fathers, George Washington and the men who established the Republic of the United States

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