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  • Due emphasis on the necessity for university costume in the case of an affirmative reply to the question will be laid by "Paterfamilias," who will contribute the second letter of the series.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 29, 1914 Various

  • "Paterfamilias," to deliver a series of instructive lectures on the subject.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 31, 1917 Various

  • By this "mystical union," man is made "Paterfamilias," that name of truest dignity.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

  • Your president tells me you are at present inquiring for the address of the man who signs himself 'Paterfamilias' in the 'Times'; but the letters from 'A British Matron 'are of no account.

    Better Dead 1898

  • Anyhow, I know he oughtn't to have been in it; and 'Paterfamilias' and 'Patriot' wrote letters to the _Times_ about British officers who didn't mind their own business.

    It Happened in Egypt 1889

  • Originally, when I heard the title of the episode was "Paterfamilias," my brain immediately jumped to the only pop culture frame of reference I have for that term, that reference last year.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • The family is, therefore, not only the source of the State, but the source of the Church as well, whose Mother is the Virgin Mary and whose Paterfamilias is her husband St. Joseph.

    The Home as a Spiritual Center 2008

  • Temperament, media, and atavism recommend the custom to the general; and after marrying and begetting heirs, Paterfamilias returns to the Ganymede.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The Paterfamilias has the power of life and death within the family.

    Ancient Traditions – Bushido II James Killus 2007

  • The story goes that the tradition of Paterfamilias in Rome was broken when a father ordered the death of his son—who happened to be an important Roman general.

    Ancient Traditions – Bushido II James Killus 2007

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