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A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
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patriarchate
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Christianity English) The term of office of a Christian patriarch. 2 The office or ecclesial jurisdiction of such a patriarch. 3 The office-space occupied by a patriarch and his staff.
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A patriarchate is the office or jurisdiction of an ecclesiastical patriarch . A patriarch, as the term is used here, is either, One of the five leaders of the Pentarchy , the highest-ranking bishops in the Christian Church prior to the Great Schism , who ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patriarchate \Pa`tri*ar"chate\ (p[=a]`tr[i^]*[aum]r"k[asl]t), n. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. --Jer. Taylor. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch. (Ethnol.) A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal , a., ...
WordNet
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n. the jurisdiction of a patriarch a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line [syn: patriarchy ]
Usage examples of patriarchate.
In 1931 the Oecumenical Patriarchate printed a pamphlet of it in the original Slavonic.
Oecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople and has been paleographically dated to the mid- or late sixteenth century.
Greek villagers will doubtless be restless and turbulent and unhappy where the Bulgars rule, and the Bulgars will certainly be restless and turbulent and unhappy under Greek administration, and the rival flocks of the Exarchate and Patriarchate will make themselves intensely disagreeable to one another wherever the opportunity offers.
The Patriarchate of Moscow was abolished and the Holy Synod made its appearance as the highest source of authority in all matters of the Established Church.
The Bishop of Ravenna sought the papacy, and his underlings sought the patriarchates of Constantinople and Alexandria.