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lunatic(medicine)
lunatic(dictionary)
lunatic(dictionary)
lunatic asylum(dictionary)
Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum(health)
Age of father(health)
Father(health)
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father 2, verb (oh) and LUNATIC, persons (law)


father 2, verb (oh)



2 v [T]
to become the father of a child by making a woman pregnant
::Hodgkins fathered seven children.
formal to start an important new idea or system
::Bevan fathered the concept of the National Health Service.
father on [father sth on sb] phr v
formal to claim that someone is responsible for something when they are not
::A collection of Irish stories was fathered on him.

LUNATIC, persons (law)


LUNATIC, persons. One who has had an understanding, but who, by disease, grief, or Other accident, has lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is grief, or Other accident, has lost the use of his reason. A lunatic is properly one who has had lucid intervals, sometimes enjoying his senses, and properly one who has had lucid intervals, sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not. 4 Co. 123; 1 Bl. Com. 304; Bac. Abr. Idiots,