FATHER-IN-LAW

FATHER-IN-LAW, is a person married to a woman who has children by a former husband, &c. to which children he is said to be a father-in-law.

FATHER is also used in theology for the first Person in the Trinity.

FATHER is also used in a figurative sense on divers moral and spiritual occasions. Thus, it is applied to the patriarchs; as we say Adam was the father of all mankind, Abraham the father of the faithful, &c.