good-father Sc.
[See good D. 2 b.]
A father in-law; also, a step-father.
| 1533 Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 347 Ti. Quincius..create Aulus Posthumius, his gude fader, dictator. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. iv. 206 Sche commandet her gudfather [L. socerum]..to obteine the cheif roume efter her in Britannie. 1666 Despauter's Gram. B 5 a (Jam.) Socer, pater mariti vel uxoris, the good father. c 1680 Father Hay Mem. Families (MS.) (Jam.), The late Roslin, my goodfather (grandfather to the present Roslin). |