Definition of Phratric

1. phratry [adj] - See also: phratry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phratric

phraseograms
phraseological
phraseologies
phraseologist
phraseologists
phraseology
phraser
phrasers
phrases
phrasier
phrasiest
phrasing
phrasings
phrasy
phratral
phratric (current term)
phratries
phratry
phreak
phreaked
phreaker
phreakers
phreaking
phreakings
phreaks
phreatic
phreatomagmatic
phreatophyte
phreatophytes
phreatophytic

Literary usage of Phratric

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Totemism by James George Frazer (1887)
"... and phratric totems they are in successive stages of decay. As fast as one totem attains its full development, and then, beaten out thinner and thinner, ..."

2. Cornell Studies in Classical Philology by Cornell University (1893)
"King, in the Aryan sense, is phratric king or, at most, tribe-king ; and city is merely the fortified centre of the gau, or phratry. It must not be assumed, ..."

3. The Development of the Athenian Constitution by George Willis Botsford (1893)
"King, in the Aryan sense, is phratric king or, at most, tribe-king ; and city is merely the fortified centre of the gau, or phratry. It must not be assumed, ..."

4. Contributions to North American Ethnology edited by John Wesley Powell (1881)
"Each of these subdivided, and the subdivisions became independent gentes ; but they retained the names of the original gentes as their respective phratric ..."

5. Ancient Society: Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery by Lewis Henry Morgan (1907)
"Each of these subdivided, and the subdivisions became independent gentes; but they retained the names of the original gentes as their respective phratric ..."

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