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Patriarchal

Patriarchal Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Patriarchal?
[adj] characteristic of a patriarchy
Synonyms | Synonyms for Patriarchal: patriarchic | patricentric Related Terms | Find terms related to Patriarchal: aboriginal | absolute | advanced | advanced in life | advanced in years | aged | along in years | ancestorial | ancestral | ancient | antepatriarchal | aristocratic | atavistic | authoritarian | autochthonous | autocratic | autonomous | bureaucratic | civic | civil | constitutional | democratic | despotic | dictatorial | elderly | fascist | fatherlike | fatherly | federal | federalist | federalistic | governmental | grandfatherly | grandmotherly | grandparental | gray | gray with age | gray-haired | gray-headed | grown old | gubernatorial | heteronomous | hoar | hoary | humanoid | maternal | matriarchal | matriarchic | monarchal | monarchial | monarchic | monocratic | mother | motherlike | motherly | official | old | old as Methuselah | oligarchal | oligarchic | parent | parental | parliamentarian | parliamentary | paternal | patriarchic | pluralistic | political | preadamite | preglacial | prehistoric | prehuman | prime | primeval | primitive | primogenial | primoprimitive | primordial | pristine | protohistoric | protohuman | republican | revered | reverend | reverential | self-governing | senectuous | theocratic | totalitarian | venerable | white | white with age | white-bearded | white-crowned | white-haired | wrinkled | wrinkly | years old See Also | paternal Patriarchal In Webster's Dictionary \Pa`tri*ar"chal\, a. [Cf. F. patriarcal.]
1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs;
possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal
authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a
patriarchal church.
2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
About whose patriarchal knee Late the little
children clung. --Tennyson.
3. (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government
in which the head of the family exercises authority over
all its generations.
{Patriarchal cross} (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is
intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being
the smaller. See Illust. (2) of {Cross}.
{Patriarchal dispensation}, the divine dispensation under
which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.
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