Definition of "good-father" [good-father]

• A father-in-law. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Lye said they were _quasi_ good-father and good-mother; Somner, that they were the Anglo-Saxon"
• "_Moyses_, he was fled out of _Ægypt_, being fourtie yeares of age, for the slaughter of an _Ægyptian_, and in his good-father _Iethroes_ lande, first called at the firie bushe, hauing remained there other fourtie yeares in exile: so that suppose he had beene the wickeddest man in the worlde before, he then became a changed and regenerat man, and very litle of olde"