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Definition of Paterfamilias

Paterfamilias
Paterfamilias Pa`ter*fa*mil`i*as, n.; pl. Pateresfamilias. [L., fr. pater father + familias, gen. of familia family.] (Rom. Law) The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of an estate; one who is his own master.

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- The pater familias, also written as paterfamilias (pl.: patres familias), was the head of a Roman family. The pater familias was the oldest living male...
- In Roman law, the term bonus pater familias ("good family father") refers to a standard of care, analogous to that of the reasonable man in the common...
- in "Sleep, Dearie Sleep". Elliot is credited with the main cast in "Paterfamilias" and as a guest star in "A Company of Men". Kirby and Miles are credited...
- Award for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series for the episode "Paterfamilias." After season two was released, Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal...
- and accessible. The atrium served as a reception hall in which the paterfamilias (head of household) met with clients every morning. It was a centre...
- homonym not L. 1753 Allium ampeloprasum var. paterfamilias (Boiss.) Nyman Allium ampeloprasum subsp. paterfamilias (Boiss.) K.Richt. Allium baumannianum K...
- maiorum established the dynastic authority and obligations of the citizen-paterfamilias ("the father of the family" or the "owner of the family estate"). He...
- that Shaw was a key forerunner—"godfather, if not actually finicky paterfamilias"—of the Theatre of the Absurd. Two further aspects of Shaw's theatrical...
- for themselves. In Plautus' comedy Aulularia, the Lar of the miserly paterfamilias Euclio reveals a pot of gold long-hidden beneath his household hearth...
- connection with the mother's paterfamilias and could not make claims on her intestate. It was only when the woman's paterfamilias died that she became sui...