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paternal 音标拼音: [pət'ɚnəl] a. 父亲的,似父亲的,得自父亲的 父亲的,似父亲的,得自父亲的 paternal adj 1: belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits" 2: characteristic of a father [ant: {maternal}] 3: relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent; "parental guidance" [synonym: {parental}, {maternal}, {paternal}] [ant: {filial}] 4: related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [synonym: {agnate}, {agnatic}, {paternal}] Paternal \Pa*ter"nal\, a. [L. paternus, fr. pater a father: cf. F. paternel. See {Father}.] 1. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." --Milton. [1913 Webster] 2. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate. [1913 Webster] Their small paternal field of corn. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] {Paternal government} (Polit. Science), the assumption by the governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their business and social concerns, upon the theory that they are incapable of managing their own affairs. [1913 Webster] 43 Moby Thesaurus words for "paternal": adoring, affectionate, ancestorial, ancestral, concerned, conjugal, demonstrative, devoted, faithful, fatherlike, fatherly, filial, fond, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandparental, husbandly, indulgent, kindly, languishing, lovelorn, lovesick, lovesome, loving, maternal, melting, mother, motherlike, motherly, parent, parental, patriarchal, patrilateral, patrilineal, patrilinear, patrimonial, romantic, sentimental, soft, solicitous, tender, uxorious, wifely PATERNAL. That which belongs to the father or comes from him: as, paternal
power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line. Vide Line.
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