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BROTHER , a male person in his relation to the other children of the same father and mother . " Brother " represents in English the Teutonic branch of a word common to the Indo-European languages, cf. Ger. Bruder, Dutch broeder, Dan. and Swed. broder, &c. In Celtic languages, Gaelic and Irish have brathair, and Welsh brawd; in Greek the word is 4pe r17P, in Lat. frater, from which come the Romanic forms, Fr. frere, Ital. fratello; the Span. fray, Port. frei, like the Ital. frate, fra, are only used of " friars." The Span. hermano and the Port. irmao, the regular words for brother, are from Lat. germanus, born of the same father and mother . The Sanskrit word is bhraldr, and the ultimate Indo-European root is generally taken to be bhar, to bear See Also: - BEAR
- BEAR, BLACK
- BEAR, BROWN
- BEAR, GRIZZLY
- BEAR, ISABELLINE
- BEAR,
WHITE See Also: - WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
(cf. M. H. Ger. barn, Scot. bairn, child, and such words as " birth ," " burden "). " Brother " has often been loosely used of kinsmen generally, or for members of the sametribe; also for quite fictitious relationships, e.g. " blood-brothers ," through a sacramental rite of mutual blood-tasting, " foster-brothers ," because suckled by the same nurse. Christianity, through the idea of the universal fatherhood of God, conceives all men as brothers; but in a narrower sense " the brethren " are the members of the Church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
, or, in a narrower still, of a confraternity or " brotherhood " within the Church See Also: - CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
. This latter idea is reproduced in those fraternal societies , e.g. the Freemasons, the members of which become " brothers " by initiation. " Brother " is also used symbolically, as implying equality, by sovereigns in addressing one another, and also by bishops.
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