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Definition of Patriarchic
1. Adjective. (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line.
Definition of Patriarchic
1. a. Patriarchal.
Definition of Patriarchic
1. Adjective. Patriarchal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patriarchic
Literary usage of Patriarchic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 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)
"While the patriarchic organization is preserved, all patriarchs have not equal
powers; .... patriarchic ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1903)
"... Servian (patriarchic); and that, though the former predominates the latter is
by no means a negligible quantity. As an example of the racial conditions ..."
3. The Cults of the Greek States by Lewis Richard Farnell (1907)
"... as the husband of the earth-goddess, to fill a gap in the social theological
system, in accord with the patriarchic trend of Greek polytheism. ..."
4. De Bow's Review by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell (1867)
"We have seen that democracy is the first choice of every nation, starting into
political life—the patriarchic habits of the primary condition of the human ..."
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