patriarchal
a. குடும்ப ஆட்சித தலைவருக்குரிய, இன ஆட்சித் தலைவருக்குட்பட்ட, குடும்ப ஆட்சி முதல்வர் போன்ற, இன ஆட்சி முதல்வரியல்புடைய.
Pa`tri*ar"chal, a. Etym: [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. 2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson. 3. (Ethnol.) Defn: Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. 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.