"Materfamilias" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of their heroes, my dear," said Paterfamilias to Materfamilias. "I suppose he has won a scholarship at ...
— The Head of Kay's • P. G. Wodehouse
... grandfather; fathership^, fatherhood; mabap^. house, stem, trunk, tree, stock, stirps, pedigree, lineage, line, family, tribe, sept, race, clan; genealogy, descent, extraction, birth, ancestry; forefathers, forbears, patriarchs. motherhood, maternity; mother, dam, mamma, materfamilias [Lat.], grandmother. Adj. paternal, parental; maternal; family, ancestral, linear, patriarchal. Phr. avi numerantur avorum [Lat.]; happy he with such a mother [Tennyson]; hombre bueno no le busquen abolengo [Sp.]; philosophia stemma non inspicit ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... irritated by the removal of his source of irritation? Thus Paterfamilias Bloggs, having been 'riled' by the overcrowding of the omnibus in which he proceeds homeward, makes up his mind that if Materfamilias B. has not provided fish-balls for supper, he will 'raise a row.' And he so gloats in expectancy over the imaginary denunciation that he will inflict on that long-suffering female, that he is quite disappointed, on entering his basement, to discover at a glance that a dish of beautifully-browned ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various |
