Thesaurus: patriarchal

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1. a. 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. a. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
3. a. Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.
4. adj. characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
5. adj. relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank
6. 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.
7. Having an organization of society and government in which thehead of the family exercises authority over all its generations.Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersectedby two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust.(2) of Cross.-- Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which thepatriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.
8. j:100 a. characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line a. relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank