patrimonial

[ US /ˈpætɹəˌmoʊniəɫ, ˈpætɹəˌmoʊnjəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
    hereditary monarchy
    transmissible tradition
    ancestral home
    patrimonial estate
    ancestral lore
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How To Use patrimonial In A Sentence

  • Of course, this is an additional patrimonial treasure that will increase the notoriety of Arles.
  • In a traditional patrimonial system, all ruling relationships are personal relationships and the difference between the private and public spheres is nonexistent.
  • Political conflict of the seventeenth century pushed the state out of the economy and sheared its patrimonial attributes.
  • He would have gratefully given all his patrimonial domains to one who should inform him what pendragon or druid it was who set up the first stone on Salisbury plain. Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquist
  • Moral or extrapatrimonial damage is often difficult to put a figure on in an exact or even approximative manner. It pays to have hurt feelings when you complain to the HRC's
  • Two government officials represent the state in financial and patrimonial matters.
  • HAVING set forth, in the two preceding chapters, the nature of a commonwealth institutive, by the consent of many men together; I come now to speak of dominion, or a body politic by acquisition, which is commonly called a patrimonial kingdom. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • HAVING set forth, in the two preceding chapters, the nature of a commonwealth institutive, by the consent of many men together; I come now to speak of dominion, or a body politic by acquisition, which is commonly called a patrimonial kingdom. The Elements of Law Natural and Politic
  • The Praetorian praefect, the praefect of Rome, the quaestor, the master of the offices, with the public and patrimonial treasurers, * whose functions are painted in gaudy colors by the rhetoric of Cassiodorus, still continued to act as the ministers of state. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Calasans of CFEMEA said the new law establishes that gender-based violence is a violation of human rights, and makes other forms of violence punishable by prison sentences, such as patrimonial or economic violence, which is the restriction or denial of access to shared or family property. IPS Inter Press Service
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