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单词 father-brother
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father-brother
father-brother n. [compare Middle Low German vāderbrōder, German Vaterbruder (beginning of the 16th century)] Obsolete (Scottish in later use) a paternal uncle; cf. father-sister n. and also mother brother n.
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a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xx. 20 He þat gooþ to gedere wiþ þe wife of his fader broþer [L. patrui] or of his vncle & openeþ þe sheenscheep of his kynredene boþe þei shal bere þer synne.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. vi. 37 We stand content..That ay remane the chaste Proserpina Within hir fader broderis boundis and ryng.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 33 The father brother of the fathers side.
1644 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1872) IV. 34 Mr James Reid..hade caused lay his vmquhill father and..his father brother, vnder the said stane.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. xxx. §32. 170 Our Custom hath according to the course of the Law of Nature, found the Father to be Heir to his Son, and not the Father-brother, or any of his Descendents.
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