a. [ Cf. F. patriarcal. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. [ 1913 Webster ]
About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. [ 1913 Webster ]
Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust. (2) of Cross. -- Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses. [ 1913 Webster ]
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