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Definition of Patrimony
1. Noun. A church endowment.
2. Noun. An inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture).
Definition of Patrimony
1. n. A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
Definition of Patrimony
1. Noun. A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor. ¹
2. Noun. Formerly, a church estate or endowment. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patrimony
1. [n -NIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patrimony
Literary usage of Patrimony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"The Sabine patrimony. spoiled thirty years before. Possibly it had again BK. ix.
fallen back into Lombard hands. What we know is -— that Charles during his ..."
2. Réflexions sur l'espèce en histoire naturelle, 1842 by Hans Falkenhagen, Ronald Percy Bell, Norman Holt Hartshorne, Alan Stuart, Eric John Holmyard, Alexander Moritzi, Thomas Hodgkin (1899)
"They went, and assembled about a hundred men, who swore on the Virgin's altar
that this patrimony had of old belonged to St. Peter and the Roman Church. ..."
3. The History of Roman Law from the Text of Ortolan's Histoire de la by Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1871)
"THINGS IN OUR patrimony (Bona), OR OUT OF OUR patrimony. 132. Thence arises that
general division under which all the distinctions we have just mentioned ..."
4. Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica by Joseph Jackson Howard (1900)
"Joseph Cokayne, sou of Thomas ; patrimony. William, Cokayne, son of Mr Francis,
... Thomas Cokayne, son of said William, the Elder ; patrimony. ..."
5. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1895)
"From the letters to this Peter we learn a good deal about the way in which the
lands of the patrimony, in Sicily at least, were cultivated, ..."
6. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"7 The patrimony of the church was still subject to all the public impositions of
the state.loe The clergy of Rome, Alexandria, ..."
7. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He died after having divided the Prankish Empire, as a patrimony, between his
two sons, Carloman and Pepin. ..."
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