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- English Word Patina Definition The color or incrustation which age gives to works of art; especially, the green rust which covers ancient bronzes, coins, and medals.
- English Word Patine Definition A plate. See Paten.
- English Word Patio Definition A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.
- English Word Patly Definition Fitly; seasonably.
- English Word Patness Definition Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.
- English Word Patois Definition A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.
- English Word Patonce Definition Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; -- said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.
- English Word Patrial Definition Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun.
- English Word Patrial Definition A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.
- English Word Patriarch Definition 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.
- English Word Patriarch Definition A dignitary superior to the order of archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of Alexandria, or of Antioch.
- English Word Patriarch Definition A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.
- English Word Patriarchal Definition 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.
- English Word Patriarchal Definition Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
- English Word Patriarchal Definition Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations.
- English Word Patriarchate Definition The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.
- English Word Patriarchate Definition The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.
- English Word Patriarchate Definition A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3.
- English Word Patriarchdom Definition The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.
- English Word Patriarchic Definition Patriarchal.