The Collaborative International Dictionary
Father \Fa"ther\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Fathering.]
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To make one's self the father of; to beget.
Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base.
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To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.).
Men of wit Often fathered what he writ.
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To provide with a father. [R.]
Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded ?
--Shak.To father on or To father upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. ``Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor.''
--Barrow.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of father English)
Wikipedia
Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers, is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2003 as the third of five published by Men's Studies Press and the first worldwide to focus specifically on fatherhood. Editor-in-Chief is Jaipaul Roopnarine.
Usage examples of "fathering".
Ossifer Plumm was much too dead, but that did not stop him fathering a child, did it?
His cousin should be busy fathering a little weasel-faced heir on his widow instead of starving himself to death.