paterfamilias

• He was the philandering paterfamilias, she the nagging and vengeful stay-at-home mom Just like the people who worshipped them. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 01 - July 2002
• But in the end, she didn't fall below the yellow line, and her swing vote sent black team matron Renee home instead of blue team paterfamilias -- and last man standing -- Ed (shock of all shocks). —  phillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
• No sooner did that happen then that he was giving them just the on-air whipping errant sons should get from the angry and disappointed paterfamilias, and no sooner did that happen then that they were crawling back to him - also sometimes on air - begging his forgiveness. —  CommonDreams.org Headlines
• There can, however, be no doubt that it possessed in its own right a small piece of garden ground (_heredium_), and also an allotment of land in the arable laid out by the settlers in common--_centuriatus ager_; whether the ownership of this was vested in the individual paterfamilias or in the gens as a whole, does not greatly matter for our purposes. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
• But if a paterfamilias or his representative had omitted iusta facere_, or if the dead man had never been buried at all, carried off by an enemy or some wild beast, he could never have descended to that underworld, and was roaming the earth disconsolately, and with an evil will. —  The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms