Word Meanings - PATRIARCHISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.

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• FAMILY
  A groupe of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoölogy
• PATRIARCHATE
  A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3. (more info) 1. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. Jer. Taylor. 2. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.
• PATRIARCHISM
  Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.
• PATRIARCHY
  1. The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship. Brerewood. 2. Government by a patriarch; patriarchism.
• GOVERNMENTAL
  Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
• PATRIARCHSHIP
  A patriarchate. Ayliffe.
• GOVERNMENT
  The influence of a word in regard to construction, requiring that another word should be in a particular case. (more info) 1. The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil,
• PATRIARCHDOM
  The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.
• PATRIARCHIC
  Patriarchal.
• PATRIARCHAL
  Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. Patriarchal cross , a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller.
• PATRIARCH
  A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch. 3. A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively. The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• SUBFAMILY
  One of the subdivisions, of more importance than genus, into which certain families are divided.
• SUPERFAMILY
  A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.
• SELF-GOVERNMENT
  1. The act of governing one's self, or the state of being governed by one's self; self-control; self-command. 2. Hence, government of a community, state, or nation by the joint action of the mass of people constituting such a civil body; also,