ppl. a. rare. [f. as prec. + -ED2.] Provided with or having a father.
1601. Shaks., Jul. C., II. i. 297.
Thinke you, I am no stronger than my Sex | |
Being so Fatherd, and so Husbanded? | |
Ibid. (1605), Lear, III. vi. 117. | |
When that which makes me bend makes the king bow, | |
He childed as I fatherd! |
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, VI. 648.
Not much worse off in being fatherless | |
Than I was, fathered. |