pater-familias

Syria, ever “feracious of heresies,” had allowed many of her finest tracts to be monopolised by monkeries and nunneries. 320 After many a tentative measure Mohammed seems to have built his edifice upon two bases, the unity of the Godhead and the priesthood of the pater-familias.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“That depends on Dauriat; it is ready,” said Vernou pater-familias.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

What I am calling the sentimental ethos is an ethical system that seeks to shore up the faltering claims of the pater-familias, primarily through exerting control of the family's bloodlines, and reifying the daughter's choice of a husband (in conformity with the father's wishes).

Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos 2005

And meanwhile he was now become a pater-familias, and had boys of his own to send to Rugby, and to encourage and advise in their school-life by letters which -- and it is paying them a high compliment to say so -- are almost as good as those which his father had, thirty years before, addressed to him at the same place.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

Swords were drawn on both sides and _pater-familias_, whose coat of mail served him well, succeeded in cutting off the right hand of his assailant.

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

Through the blinds of a back-parlor window I watched his movements, as, encouraged by _pater-familias_, he drew off his coat, moistened his hands, and undertook to "snake up" the big weight.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

By the way, what are you -- peer, profiteer, or plain _pater-familias_ looking for a family air-bus?

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 Various

They forcibly entered the house of a wealthy citizen whose name has not come down to us, he is simply styled the _pater-familias_.

London and the Kingdom - Volume I

At Mortlake she splashed a shower of sprinkling pearls over an irate swan pater-familias, who had hurried out from the alders, to see what business we meant by coming at that time of night so near the domain of

She and I, Volume 1

The box was only five dollars a night, and pater-familias certainly could afford that!

Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912