Mather

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noun
  1. Cotton, 1663–1728, American clergyman and author.

  2. his father, In·crease [in-krees], /ˈɪn kris/, 1639–1723, American clergyman and author.

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  • In sound and structure Mather's style is what the critics call "archaistic."

    American Sketches | Charles Whibley
  • But at the time about which we are writing there was in Boston a distinguished family of puritanical ministers named Mather.

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