Word Meanings - PATRIARCHAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: 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. See Illust. of Cross. -- Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church. 2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PATRIARCHAL)

• Aged
• Old
• ancient
• antiquated
• elderly
• senile
• patriarchal
• primeval
• time-honored
• olden

Related words: (words related to PATRIARCHAL)

• ANTIQUATION
  The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated. Beaumont.
• PRIMEVALLY
  In a primeval manner; in or from the earliest times; originally. Darwin.
• ELDERLY
  Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age; as, elderly people.
• ANTIQUATED
  Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Ancient; old; antique; obsolete. See
• SENILE
  Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness. "Senile maturity of judgment." Boyle. Senile gangrene , a form of gangrene occuring particularly
• PRIMEVAL
  Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• OLDEN
  Old; ancient; as, the olden time. "A minstrel of the olden stamp." J. C. Shairp.
• ANCIENTRY
  1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
• ANTIQUATEDNESS
  Quality of being antiquated.
• 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.
• TIME-HONORED
  Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.
• ANCIENT
  1. An ensign or flag. More dishonorable ragged than an old-faced ancient. Shak. 2. The bearer of a flag; an ensign. This is Othello's ancient, as I take it. Shak.
• ANCIENTY
  1. Age; antiquity. Martin. 2. Seniority.
• ANTIQUATENESS
  Antiquatedness.
• ANTIQUATE
  To make old, or obsolete; to make antique; to make old in such a degree as to put out of use; hence, to make void, or abrogate. Christianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. Sir M. Hale.
• ENCOLDEN
  To render cold.
• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• YOLDEN
  Yielded.
• EMBOLDENER
  One who emboldens.
• IMBOLDEN
  See EMBOLDEN
• UNYOLDEN
  Not yielded. " force . . . is he taken unyolden." Sir T. Browne.
• BOLDEN
  To make bold; to encourage; to embolden. Ready speakers, being boldened with their present abilities to say more, . . . use less help of diligence and study. Ascham.
• GOLDEN-EYE
  A duck , found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America is less common.
• GOLDEN STATE
  California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.
• BEHOLDEN
  Obliged; bound in gratitude; indebted. But being so beholden to the Prince. Tennyson.
• GOLDEN-ROD
  A tall herb , bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree , a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.