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PATRIMONIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does patrimonial mean?
• PATRIMONIAL (adjective)
The adjective PATRIMONIAL has 1 sense:
1. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
Familiarity information: PATRIMONIAL used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent
Synonyms:
ancestral; hereditary; patrimonial; transmissible
Context example:
transmissible tradition
Similar:
heritable; inheritable (capable of being inherited)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Derivation:
patrimony (an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture))
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