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‘‘Like Father, like fon.”—This proverb not only 
intimates the fprce of nature, but of example alfo; for 
fuch in general as are the parents, as to vice or virtue, 
fuch are too commonly the children ; for the ill examples 
of a vicious father almoft univerfally tend to the de¬ 
bauching of a fon ; while the good precepts and examples 
of a virtuous father, go a great way to the forming a vir¬ 
tuous offspring. The Latins fay, Malicorvi, malum ovum : 
the Italians, Qua padre, tal figlio. 
FA'THER-IN-LAW, /. The father of one’s hufband 
or W'ife.—I mull make my father-in-law a vifit with a 
great train and equipage. Aadifon. 
F A'THERHOOD, f. The charadter of a father; the 
authority of a father.—We have had an entire notion of 
this fatherhood, or fatherly authority. Locke. 
FA'THERLESS, adj. Wanting a father; deditute of 
a father.—He fhall not afflibt any widow, or fatherlefs 
child. Exod. xxii. 
FA'THERLESS,/. [from the adj. put abfolutely.] 
Children that have no father. “In whom the fatherlefs 
find mercy.” 
FA'THERLINESS, f The tendernefs of a father ; 
parental kindnefs. 
FA'THERLY, adj. Paternal; like a father; tender; 
protecting; careful: 
Let me but move one queftion to your daughter, 
And, by that fatherly and kindly power 
That you have in her, bid her anfwer truly. Shakefpeare. 
FA'THERLY, adv. In the manner of a father : 
Thus Adam, fatherly difpleas’d: 
O execrable fon ! fo to afpire 
Above his brethren ! Milton. 
FA'THOM, f. [ptebm, Sax.] A ir.eafure of length, 
containing fix feet, or two yards; the fpace to which a 
man can extend both arms.—The extent of this fathom, 
or didance between the extremity of the fingers of either 
hand upon expanlion, is equal unto the fpace between the 
foie of the foot and the crown. Brown. —It is the ufual 
meafure applied to the depth of the fea, when the line 
for founding is called the fathom line: 
Dive into the bottom of the deep, 
Wiiere fathom line could never touch the ground. Skakefp. 
Reach ; penetration; depth of contrivance; compafs of 
thought: 
Another of his fathom they have none 
To lead their bufinefs. Shakefpeare. 
To FA'THOM, v.a. To encompafs with the arms ex¬ 
tended or encircling.—To reach ; to mailer : 
Leave, leave to fathom fuch high points as thefe : 
Nor be ambitious, ere the time, to pleafe. Dryden. 
To found; to try with refpedf to the depth.—’Tis too 
ftrong for weak heads to try the heights and fathom the 
depths of his flights. Felton. —To penetrate into ; to find 
the bottom or utmoft extent : as, I cannot fathom his de- 
fign. —Our depths who fathoms? Pope. 
FA'THOMLESS, adj. That of which no bottom can 
be found. That of which the circumference cannot be 
embraced : 
Will you with counters fum 
The vad proportion of his infinite ; 
And buckle in a wade mod fathomlefs , 
With fpans and inches fo diminutive 
As fears and reafons? Shakefpeare. 
FATI'DIC,/. A fortune-teller. 
FATI'DIC, or Fati'dical, adj. [ fatidicus , Lat. fati- 
dique, Fr.] Prophetic ; having the power toforetel future 
events.—The oak, of all other trees only fatidical, told 
them what a fearful unlortnnatebufinefs this would Drove. 
Howell. 
FATI'FEROUS, adj. [fat'fer, Lat.] Deadly; mor¬ 
tal ; dedrudtive. 
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FA'TIGABLE, adj. [ fatigo, Lat.] Eafily wearied ; 
fufceptible of wearinefs. 
To FA'TIGATE, v.a. [fatigo, Lat.] To weary, to 
fatigue; to tire; to exhaud with labour ; to opprefs with 
laditude. Nut in ufe .- 
By and by the din of war ’gan to pierce 
His ready fenfe, when draight his doubled fpirit 
Requicken’d what in flefh was fatigate, 
And to the battle came he. Shakefpeare. 
FATI'GUE, /. [ fatigue, Fr. fatigo, Lat.] Wearinefs; 
laditude. The caufe of wearinefs; labour; toil.—The 
great Scipio fought honours in his youth, and endured the 
fatigues with which he purchafed them. Dryden. 
To FATI'GUE, <z >.a. [ fatiguer, Fr. Jatigo, Lat.] To 
tire; to weary ; to harafs with toil; to exhaud with la¬ 
bour : 
The man who druggies in the fight. 
Fatigues left arm as well as right. Prior. 
FATIL'OQUIST, /. [ fatuin, fate, and loquor, Lat. to 
fpeak.] A fortune-teller. Not much ufed. 
FATKID'NEYED, adj. Fat: by way of reproach or 
contempt.—Peace, ye fatkidney’d rafcal. Shakefpeare. 
FAT'LING, J'. A young animal fed fat for the daugh¬ 
ter.—The calf, and the young lion, and the fading, diall 
lie down together, and a little child (hall lead them. 
If . xi . 6 . 
FAT'NER,/. That which gives fatnefs.—The wind 
was wed, on which that philofopher bedowed the enco¬ 
mium of fatner of the earth. Arbuthnot. 
FAT'NESS,/. The quality of being fat, plump, or 
full fed. Fat; greale ; fulnefs of fledi : 
And by his fide rode loathfome gluttony, 
Deformed creature, on a filthy fwine ; 
His belly was upblown with luxury, 
And eke with fatnefs fwollen were his eyen. Spenfer. 
Undtuous or greafy matter.—Earth and water, mingled 
by the help of the fun, gather a nitrous fatnefs. Bacon. — 
Oleaginouihefs; diminefs; unctuoufnefs.—But the olive- 
tree laid unto them; Should I leave my fatnefs where¬ 
with by me they honour God and man, and go to be pro¬ 
moted over the trees ? Judges ,—Fertility; fruitfulnefs.—■ 
God give thee of the dew of heaven, and the fatnefs of 
the earth, and plenty of corn and wine. Gen. xxvii. 28,— 
That which caufes fertility.—Vapours and clouds feed 
the plants of the earth with the balm of dew and the fat¬ 
nefs of fhowers. Bentley. 
FATSI'SIO, an illand of Japan, about eighty miles 
from the fouth coad of the ide of Niplion, whither the 
emperor banilhes the grandees who have incurred his 
difpleafure, to be employed in making filk duffs embroi¬ 
dered with gold : the illand is barren, and almod inaccef- 
fible. 
FATTECON'DA, the capital of the kingdom of Bon- 
dou, in Africa, where the royal family, and the chiefs of 
the government refide. Park deferibes the houfes be¬ 
longing to the king and his family as very fpacious, and 
furrounded by a lofty mud wall, which converts the whole 
into a kind of citadel. At the entrance ftood a foldier 
with a mulket on his dioulder; and he found the way to 
the prefence very intricate,-leading through many paf- 
fages, with centinels placed at the different doors. When 
he approached the court of the royal apartment, both 
himfelf and the guides took off their fandals, as is the 
cudom, before admittance can be obtained. They found 
the black monarch fitting upon a mat, with only two at¬ 
tendants. He was kindly received, and very civilly 
treated. The harem was kept in a different part of the 
building; the women appeared young, gay, and cheerful; 
had glolfy jet-black fkins, and flat depreffed nofes. They 
admired the prominent nofe and white Ikin of Park, 
which they faid mud have been produced when he was 
an infant, by dipping him in milk.—Park’s Travels, p. 5'S. 
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