α. 1600s– phratria.
β. 1800s– phratry.
单词 | phratry |
释义 | phratryn.α. 1600s– phratria. β. 1800s– phratry. 1. Ancient Greek History. A kinship group composed of families with a notional common ancestor, having a corporate identity and certain corporate responsibilities and functions; each of the three subdivisions into which an Athenian phyle was divided; a clan. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > clan > [noun] > ancient Greek > divisions of phratry1833 triakad1846 obe1876 1637 F. Rous Archæologia Atticæ i. v. 21 Each Tertian also had his overseer called Τριτύαρχος the Ruler of the Trittys or Phratria. 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. i. xxvi. 146 First of all these Cousins, then these Persons who have right to the same Burying-place with us, these here of the same Phratria. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Phratriarchus, among the Athenians, a magistrate that presided over the phratria, or third part of a tribe. He had the same power over the phratria, that the phylarchus had over the tribe. 1833 C. Thirlwall in Philol. Museum 2 307 The desire of the higher classes to keep aloof from the rustics..,who had been admitted into the phratries. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 222 A family Zeus, and a Zeus guardian of the phratry. 1910 Classical Philol. 5 258 The entire phratry was required to be present when the thiasi operated, and the voting tablets had to be taken from the altar. 1986 Oxf. Hist. Classical World (1993) ix. 208 Every male Athenian belonged to a phratry, and it was his phratry which dominated his social life. 2002 Skeptical Inquirer (Nexis) 1 Jan. 44 The feast of Apatouria involves the induction of infants, youths and wives into the phratry, or clan of families. 2. Any of various analogous clans or kinship divisions found in other societies; (esp. in Cultural Anthropology) a descent group or kinship group in some tribal societies. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > tribe > [noun] mankinOE tribea1325 rod1483 jati1838 phratry1876 1876 L. H. Morgan in N. Amer. Rev. 123 65 It is..probable..that the Mound-Builders were organized in gentes, phratries, and tribes. 1891 E. Westermarck Hist. Human Marriage (1894) 298 The Seneca tribe of the Iroquois was divided into two ‘phratries’, or divisions intermediate between the tribe and the clan. 1915 E. Sapir in T. McFeat Indians N. Pacific Coast (1987) 33 Those tribes, like the Haida and Tlingit, that are subdivided into phratries and clans. 1961 Amer. Heritage Bk. Indians 279/1 The mild, idle winters were for luxury, a luxury that created fantastically intricate systems of ceremonials; of clans and the groups of clans known to the anthropological trade as phratries. 1991 S. Larsen & R. Larsen Fire in Mind ii. x. 205 The animals are known to be the totems of clans and phratries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1637 |
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