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It is clear that in the circumstances the terms “father,” “patristic,” “patrology” must be used with much elasticity, since it is now too late to substitute for them any more comprehensive terms.

It reached its climax, as we should expect to find, in the heroic writers of the fourth century, the golden era of patrology.

Associated words: patristic, patristics, patrology, patrist. churchly, a. ecclesiastical. church officer. vestryman, warden, presbyter, trustee. churl, n. rustic, hind, bumpkin, lout, boor. churlish, a. boorish, rude, morose, unamiable. chyle, n.