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Definition of the day : « paterfamilias »
- As in man of the house : noun householder
- As in patriarch : noun male head
- As in forebearer : noun family predecessor
- Mr. Schmuck was an excellent "paterfamilias," and took great care of children.
- Extract from : « Debts of Honor » by Maurus Jkai
- It is the distribution that must be looked to; it is the paterfamilias that is wanting in the State.
- Extract from : « Crotchet Castle » by Thomas Love Peacock
- Well,” said I, “it was either the Lewis gun or Paterfamilias the grim.
- Extract from : « Great Britain at War » by Jeffery Farnol
- This self-indulgence on your part, my dear Paterfamilias, is weak, vain—not to say culpable.
- Extract from : « Roundabout Papers » by William Makepeace Thackeray
- It is the first labour of every governing man, from Paterfamilias to Dominus Rex.
- Extract from : « Past and Present » by Thomas Carlyle
- But to Paterfamilias these are all the joys or sorrows of another world.
- Extract from : « The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 » by Various
- "Something for you, Laura," said Paterfamilias, as he threw a letter into her lap.
- Extract from : « The Catholic World, Vol. X, October 1869 » by Various
- Paterfamilias is afraid the young men will pay attention to his daughters.
- Extract from : « The Night Side of London » by J. Ewing Ritchie
- The writer—to do him justice—did not sign himself "Paterfamilias."
- Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CLVIII, January 7, 1920 » by Various
- And the City of Rome stood to its citizens in the place of the paterfamilias.
- Extract from : « Ancient Rome » by Mary Agnes Hamilton