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Definition of Patriciate
1. n. The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch.
Definition of Patriciate
1. Noun. The rank of a patrician ¹
2. Noun. The aristocracy or nobility ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Patriciate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patriciate
Literary usage of Patriciate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. System of Positive Polity by Auguste Comte (1877)
"If the numbers given above for the four orders of the patriciate are rejected,
they should be changed without interfering with the principle; ..."
2. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"From his Roman patriciate Pepin inferred a duty to protect, but not a right to rule.
His son Charles, on the contrary, managed to change the relation and to ..."
3. The Relation of Labor to the Law of Today: By Dr. Lujo Brentano by Lujo Brentano (1891)
"Degeneration of the patriciate.—Yet, as long as the government of the bishops
and princes continued, these differences had no political meaning ; indeed, ..."
4. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"Just as the Romans then tried to outvie each other in splendour, so did they
again, on a subsequent occasion, when the patriciate was conferred on the ..."
5. The Letters of Cassiodorus: Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae by Cassiodorus, Thomas Hodgkin (1886)
"... being descended from such ancestors, and yourself possessing such virtues, on
laying down the Consular fasces, assume the insignia of the patriciate. ..."
6. The Letters of Cassiodorus: Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae by Cassiodorus, Thomas Hodgkin (1886)
"FORMULA OP THE patriciate. Patrici- 'In olden times the Patricians were said ...
The great distinction of the patriciate is that it is a rank held for life ..."
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