[ALL- E 3 + FATHER, after ON. Al-fadir.] The father of all, the universal father.

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  1.  orig. A title of Odin, the Al-fadir of the Edda.

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1810.  W. Taylor, in Month. Mag., XXIX. 321. Nor, by Al-father, shall it be conniv’d at.

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1864.  Kingsley, Rom. & Teut., iii. (1875), 69. Woden, the All-father, was superior to one of his sons.

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  b.  Transferred to Jupiter.

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1870.  Bryant, Homer, I. VIII. 239. The All-Father took his golden scales.

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  c.  Applied to God.

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1874.  M. Collins, Th. in Garden (1880), II. i. 11. Doing that which is right, you grasp the hand of the Allfather, and that grasp gives safety.

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