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matriarchal, a.|meɪtrɪˈɑːkəl|
[f. matriarch + -al1, after patriarchal.]
Of or pertaining to a matriarch or to maternal rule; pertaining to, of the nature of, or based on matriarchy.
1863Jowett in Life & Lett. (1897) I. xi. 363 They [Tennyson's boys] are getting too old for the matriarchal form of government. 1881Pall Mall G. 12 Feb. 1/2 [In France] nothing is commoner than that two or three generations should continue to live in the same house... This little community is ordinarily rather matriarchal than patriarchal. It is the eldest of the women who usually organizes and rules it. 1884Tylor in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 905 The Indian tribes further south are largely matriarchal, reckoning descent not on the father's but the mother's side.
Hence matriˈarchalism, the condition of life under a matriarchal system. matriˈarchalist, a supporter of the theory that tribal society was primitively matriarchal.
1884Tylor in Rep. Brit. Assoc. 906 Matriarchalism has only in places yielded to the patriarchal system. 1885― in Academy 1 Aug. 67/2 The effect which the researches of the matriarchalists had on his mind. |