PATRIARCHALLY

Etymology

Adverb

patriarchally (comparative more patriarchally, superlative most patriarchally)

In a patriarchal manner.

Synonyms

• patriarchically

Source: Wiktionary


PATRIARCHAL

Pa`tri*ar"chal, a. Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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