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good-father Sc.
[See good D. 2 b.]
A father in-law; also, a step-father.
1533Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 347 Ti. Quincius..create Aulus Posthumius, his gude fader, dictator. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. iv. 206 Sche commandet her gudfather [L. socerum]..to obteine the cheif roume efter her in Britannie. 1666Despauter's Gram. B 5 a (Jam.) Socer, pater mariti vel uxoris, the good father. c1680Father Hay Mem. Families (MS.) (Jam.), The late Roslin, my goodfather (grandfather to the present Roslin). |