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Patriarchal

Patriarchal Definition And Meaning
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.

Patriarchal Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Patriarchal?

[adj] characteristic of a patriarchy

Synonyms | Synonyms for Patriarchal: patriarchic | patricentric

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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