Patriarchal

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a patriarch.
  • adjective. Of or relating to a patriarchy.
  • adjective. Ruled by a patriarch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Of or pertaining to a patriarch: as, patriarchal power or jurisdiction.
  • Subject to a patriarch: as, a patriarchal church.
  • Pertaining to or of the nature of a patriarchy.
  • Resembling or characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
  • Also patriarchic.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs
  • adjective. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
  • adjective. Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.
  • adjective. a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust. (2) of Cross.
  • adjective. the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Relating to a system run by males, rather than females.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank
  • adjective. characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
  • Word Usage
    "I'm torn between using the term patriarchal conspiracy and thinking of a term that's less likely to get me laughed of the internet"
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