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Patriarchate   /pˈeɪtriˌɑrkət/   Listen
Patriarchate

noun
1.
The jurisdiction of a patriarch.
2.
A form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line.  Synonym: patriarchy.






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"Patriarchate" Quotes from Famous Books



... subsequent battles and conquests until it included the whole of Palestine. A language resembling Norman-French was established in this kingdom, and a code of feudal laws drawn up for its government. The clergy also obtained their share of the conquest, Jerusalem was created into a patriarchate, and Bethlehem into a bishopric. The foundation of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem in July, 1099, was the consummation ...
— Ten Great Events in History • James Johonnot

... this appointment the following decree was issued:—"For just reasons known to us, and which concern especially the service of God and the public welfare, we suspend from the power of confessing and preaching, in the whole extent of our patriarchate, the fathers of the Society of Jesus, from this moment, and until further notice." Saldanha had been ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI. • Various

... your big events, of the quarrel of the Pope and the Venetians, on the Patriarchate of Aquileia. We look upon it as so decisive that I should not wonder if Mr. Lyttelton, or Whitfield the Methodist, were to set out for Venice, to make them a tender of ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole



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