(metaphysics) essential nature or underlying reality | `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military |
any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united | God when considered as the first person in the Trinity |
the accumulation of blood in an organ | (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom |
the suppression of a gene by the effect of an unrelated gene | |