patriarchal
patriarchal is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson.
- 2.(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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abba
- ancestor
- ancestral
- ancestry
- birth
- clan
- consanguinity
- dad
- dam
- descent
- extraction
- family
- father
- fatherhood
- fathership
- genealogy
- genitor
- grandfather
- grandmother
- grandsire
- great
- happy
- house
- line
- lineage
- linear
- mamma
- maternal
- maternity
- mother
- motherhood
- non
- papa
- parent
- parentage
- parental
- paterfamilias
- paternal
- paternity
- pedigree
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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