a. Of or pertaining to an atrium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. de- + patria one's country. ] To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A subject born in any state
May, if he please, depatriate. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Expatriated p. pr. & vb. n. Expatriating ] [ LL. expatriatus, p. p. of expatriare; L. ex out + patria fatherland, native land, fr. pater father. See Patriot. ] 1. To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The expatriated landed interest of France. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Reflexively, as To expatriate one's self: To withdraw from one's native country; to renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born, and become a citizen of another country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. expatriation. ] The act of banishing, or the state of banishment; especially, the forsaking of one's own country with a renunciation of allegiance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expatriation was a heavy ransom to pay for the rights of their minds and souls. Palfrey. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. Gr. latrei`a, fr. latrey`ein to serve, fr. la`tris servant. ] The highest kind of worship, or that paid to God; -- distinguished by the Roman Catholics from dulia, or the inferior worship paid to saints. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mater mother + -arch. ] 1. The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman who dominates or is the most important member of a group or organization; in businesses, often the founder or owner of the largest interest. [ PJC ]

3. A venerated old woman. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch or matriarchs; as, a matriarchal society. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. patria fatherland, country, fr. pater father. ] (Lat. Gram.) Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. -- n. A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials. Andrews. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. patriarche, L. patriarcha, Gr. paria`rchhs, fr. paria` lineage, especially on the father's side, race; path`r father + 'archo`s a leader, chief, fr. 'a`rchein to lead, rule. See Father, Archaic. ] 1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. Dryde. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

n. [ Cf. F. patriarcat. ] 1. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Ethnol.) A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. patriarchicus, Gr. patriarchiko`s. ] Patriarchal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A patriarchate. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. patriarchi`a. ] 1. The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship. Brerewood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Government by a patriarch; patriarchism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. psychiatria, fr. Gr. &unr_; the mind + &unr_; healing. ] (Med.) The application of the healing art to mental diseases. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. repatriare. See 1st Repair. ] To restore to one's own country. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. repatriatio return to one's country. ] Restoration to one's country. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Chem.) Veratrine. [ 1913 Webster ]