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Definition of Patrilinear
1. Adjective. Based on or tracing descent through the male line. "A patrilineal society"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patrilinear
Literary usage of Patrilinear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"... in the southern by the patrilinear rule. The Kwakiutl have an institution
which seems to mark a transition between the two systems: descent follows the ..."
2. Traditional Ojibwa Religion and Its Historical Changes by Christopher Vecsey (1983)
"Long confused totems (patrilinear family marks which promoted exogamy) with .the Owners
of animals (potential guardians of humans) in saying that one's ..."
3. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"... stocks one of which was matrilinear and worshipped Hera as its chief divinity,
and the other of which was patrilinear and followed the cult of Zeus. ..."
4. A History of the Arabs in the Sudan and Some Account of the People who by Harold Alfred Macmichael (1922)
"XLVII We have seen from the preceding paragraphs that the succession to the throne
had been purely patrilinear. ..."
5. Studies in the Theory of Human Society by Franklin Henry Giddings (1922)
"... and relationships are traced in the mother- line, and the patronymic, or
patrilinear, in which names and relationships are traced in the father-line. ..."
6. The Old Testament in the Light of To-day: A Study in Moral Development by William Frederic Badè (1915)
"... patrilinear and, therefore, it can be a matter of antiquarian interest only
to inquire whether the mention of the mother beside the father is an echo ..."
7. The Old Testament in the Light of To-day: A Study in Moral Development by William Frederic Badè (1915)
"But the Israelite family, so far as one can trace its history, is patrilinear
and, therefore, it can be a matter of antiquarian interest only to inquire ..."
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