fathered

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To make one's self the father of; to beget. [1913 Webster]

Cowards father cowards, and base things sire base.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.To take as one's own child; to adopt; hence, to assume as one's own work; to acknowledge one's self author of or responsible for (a statement, policy, etc.). [1913 Webster]

Men of wit Often fathered what he writ.— Swift.[1913 Webster]

3.To provide with a father. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Think you I am no stronger than my sex, Being so fathered and so husbanded ?— Shak.[1913 Webster]

To father on or To father upon, to ascribe to, or charge upon, as one's offspring or work; to put or lay upon as being responsible. "Nothing can be so uncouth or extravagant, which may not be fathered on some fetch of wit, or some caprice of humor." --Barrow. [1913 Webster]