Definition of Paternel
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.
2. Received or derived from a father;
hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
Their small paternal field of corn.
Dryden.
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 afffairs.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- pertaining to a father, his genes, his relatives, or his side of a family.
paternal grandfather
- fatherly
- received or inherited from someone's father.
- committed by a father
paternal filicide
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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