Parent
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. A father or mother; he or she that produces young. The duties of parents to their children are to maintain, protect and
educate them.
2. When parents are wanting in authority, children are wanting in duty.
3. That which produces; cause; source.
4. Idleness is the parent of vice.
5. Regular industry is the parent of
sobriety.
Parent
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
2. That which produces; cause; source; author;
begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
PARENT AND CHILD. See Bastard, Infant, and Marriage.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 18, p. 272
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Extraction; birth; condition with respect to the rank of parents; as a man of mean parentage; a gentleman of noble parentage
Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character;
extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.
Parental
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. Pertaining to parents; as parental government.
Parental
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. Of or pertaining to a parent or to parents; as, parental authority; parental obligations.
2. Becoming to, or characteristic of, parents; tender;
affectionate; devoted; as, parental care.
Something done or said in honor of the dead.
Something done or said in honor of the dead;
obsequies.
1. A sentence, or certain words inserted in a sentence, which
interrupt the sense or natural connection of words, but serve to explain or
qualify the sense of the principal sentence. The parenthesis is usually included in hooks or curved lines, thus.
2. These officers, whom they still call bishops, are to be elected to a provision comparatively mean, through the same arts, (that is,
electioneering arts, ) by men of all religious tenets that are known or can be invented.
3. Do not suffer every occasional thought to carry you away into a long parenthesis
1. A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved lines (see def. 2 below), or dashes.
2. One of the curved lines () which inclose a
parenthetic word or phrase.
The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.
1. The act of one who kills one's own parent.
2. One who kills one's own parent; a
parricide.
