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Relating to a different family
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A temple dedicated to deified ancestors and progenitors of surname lineages or families in Chinese folk religion.
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The state of being an arhat.
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Of or related to a clan.
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(Christianity) A woman consecrated by the Catholic church to a life of perpetual virginity as an exclusive spouse of Christ, as a member of the order of virgins.
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The condition of being a deity; divinity, especially as a jocular epithet
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an idealized concept of the purity of woman
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Pertaining to a dynasty.
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Pertaining to familism.
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(countable, linguistics) A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.
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(religion) A title of respect addressed to a priest.
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A frater house; an apartment in a convent used as a dining room.
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Pertaining to or characteristic of a fratriarchy.
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A social system in which power is held by brothers.
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(figuratively) Fellowship and sympathy among a number of people.
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(theology) Based on a shared membership in a religious family.
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goddesshood, the state or position of being a goddess.
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(rare) The quality or state of being a goddess.
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(informal) Resembling or characteristic of a goddess.
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(humorous, with 'his', 'her', 'your', etc.) A term of address to a deity.
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A member of the Half-Breeds, a former Republican political party during the Gilded Age.
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The condition of being a hermit.
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(uncountable) The state of living as a hermit.
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The state of being a hermit.
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(figuratively) One's prized possessions, considered as the protectors or symbols of one's household.
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(historical, derogatory, obsolete) A person who fought for Charles I in the English Civil War.
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(archaic) Idolatry; paganism.
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The quality or condition of a mason.
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A matriarchal system or community.
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A social system in which the mother is head of household, having authority over men and children.
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Love of the motherland, as opposed to patriotism as love of the fatherland.
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The state of being a monk.
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Of or pertaining to nepotism; favoring relatives because of their relationship rather than their abilities.
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the supposed sin of clergy marrying or living with women
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(grammar, Latin, of a noun) Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile.
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A founder of a political or religious movement, an organization or an enterprise.
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Relating to a system run by males, rather than females; relating to a patriarchy.
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The quality of being patriarchal.
adj
Characteristic of or pertaining to a patriarchy.
adj
Alternative form of patriarchal [Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.]
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(anthropology, historical) A social system in which the father is head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line.
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Of, or pertaining to a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian; aristocratic.
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Befitting a patrician.
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The quality of being patrician.
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The state or condition of being patrifocal; patriarchy.
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(sociology) A complex of male-dominated or male-centered aspects of cultural and social life; patriarchy.
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(anthropology) In which the male side holds the authority.
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The quality of being patroclinous.
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(figuratively) Synonym of household deities in other contexts.
adj
(rare, nonstandard) Belonging to per, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with gendered his and her.
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An association or community organized on the plan of Charles Fourier, with living space divided hierarchically and higher pay for those carrying out unpopular tasks.
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Pertaining to government or dominance by males.
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Relating to a phratry.
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Alternative form of phratry [(Ancient Greece) A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common ancestor and having certain collective functions and responsibilities.]
adj
Relating to a phratry.
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(anthropology, dated) A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.
adj
Of, befitting, or characteristic of a policeman; policemanlike.
adj
(linguistics, dated) most recent common ancestor (often hypothetical) of
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(Wicca) The elderly stage of a male Wiccan (compared with the Sage aspect of the Horned God).
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A clan, tribe, or family, proceeding from a common progenitor (used especially of the ancient clans in Ireland).
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A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar; a vestal virgin.
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Characteristic or becoming of a victor
adj
Of or proper to the class of yeomen in British history
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