pater
noun[C]
UKold-fashionedformaluk/ˈpeɪ.tər//ˈpɑː.tər/us/ˈpɑː.t̬ɚ/father
父亲Family: informal names
- baba
- bro
- bruv
- bubba
- dad
- granda
- grandad
- grandaddy
- grandma
- grandpa
- mammy
- mater
- mom
- momma
- mommy
- mummy
- pa
- papa
- rellie
- sis
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Thepaterfamilias seems to have had in mind nothing short of a printing dynasty, or at least a comfortable principality.
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It is the woman's role to nurture the futurepaterfamilias.
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Paterinstead sees substitution as the coalescence of nasality and place, a one-step fusion rather than a two-step process.
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Pater's use of metonym and euphemism when handling the violent spectacles makes this point with his characteristic indirection.
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By contrast, he sometimes claims, as he does here, thatpaternalistic and moralistic restrictions of liberty are never justified (cf. iv 3, 4, 6; v 2).
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Pateris concerned with the disposition of his reader only to the extent he may acknowledge it as the normative view, then depart from it.
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Pater"takes a common adjective of plenitude, cancels it, and presents only its trace as supreme value" (113).
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Paterwas a significant force here, while the others represented elements of more conventional nineteenth-century values.
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Paterreflects on the spectacle of martyrdom in an unusual authorial address that gives new meaning to the ethical implications of the art of bodily looking.
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Patermakes use of martyr and related amphitheatre scenes to renegotiate the boundaries between moral purity and an aesthetic admiration of the flesh and material world more generally.
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As "paterfamilias," he condemned to death one of his sons for immorality or unchastity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This was regulated by the law ofpaterest, quem nuptiae demonstrant (father is to whom marriage points).
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A dowry of "dos adventicia" was given by the daughter herself, though it came from her "pater".
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A "paterfamilias" was the senior priest of his household.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In a few cases the replacement did not take place: "paterfamilis".
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