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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
paternal
    adj 1: belonging to or inherited from one's father; "spent his
           childhood on the paternal farm"; "paternal traits"
    2: characteristic of a father [ant: maternal]
    3: relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent;
       "parental guidance" [syn: parental, maternal, paternal]
       [ant: filial]
    4: related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn:
       agnate, agnatic, paternal]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Paternal \Pa*ter"nal\, a. [L. paternus, fr. pater a father: cf.
   F. paternel. See Father.]
   1. Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the
      disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a
      father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule."
      --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a
      paternal estate.
      [1913 Webster]

            Their small paternal field of corn.   --Dryden.
      [1913 Webster]

   Paternal government (Polit. Science), the assumption by the
      governing power of a quasi-fatherly relation to the
      people, involving strict and intimate supervision of their
      business and social concerns, upon the theory that they
      are incapable of managing their own affairs.
      [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PATERNAL. That which belongs to the father or comes from him: as, paternal 
power, paternal relation, paternal estate, paternal line. Vide Line. 



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