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Meaning of PATRIMONIAL

Pronunciation:  p'atrum`ownyul

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
 
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 Synonyms: ancestral, hereditary, heritable, inheritable, transmissible
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Pat`ri*mo"ni*al\, a. [L. patrimonialis: cf. F.
patrimonial.]
Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors;
as, a patrimonial estate.
 
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