patrilineallyadv.
/ˌpatrᵻˈlɪnɪəli/, U.S. /ˌpætrəˈlɪniəli/ Chiefly Cultural Anthropology and Sociology.
Through the male line; by patrilineal descent or kinship.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [adverb] > male line or side
paternally1603
masculinely1640
patrilineally1920
1920 R. H. Lowie Primitive Society vii. 167 There are matronymic tribes like the Crow and Hidatsa, where some kinds of property are transmitted matrilineally, others patrilineally.
1954 J. Layard in E. E. Evans-Pritchard et al. Inst. Primitive Society v. 55 Even in England, which is predominantly patrilineal, we now have a Queen, and though she succeeds to the throne patrilineally, her son will succeed matrilineally, through her.
1964 J. Gould & W. L. Kolb Dict. Social Sci. 367/1 In a patrilineally organized society a man must also have kinship relations through his mother.
1987 Amer. Ethnologist 14 731 Each household lives in the midst of its own banana-coffee grove, often right next door to other patrilineally related households.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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