recipient role: the semantic role of the animate entity that is passively involved in the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
semantic role: (linguistics) the underlying relation that a constituent has with the main verb in a clause
church father: (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom