patriarchate (patriarkat)

[F. patriar cat = Sp. patriarcado = Pg. patriarch a do = It. patriarcato, Is not the Chiefe of them acc us'd out of his owne Booke and his late Canons to affect a certaine unquestionable Pa triarch at , independent and unsubordinate to the Crowne? Milton , Reformation in Eng., ii. Proclus, bishop of Cyzicum, perhaps an unsucce ful rival of Nestor i us for the patriarchate . Schaff , Hist. Christ. Church, III. § 137. 2. The residence of a patriarch.-3. The community or province under the jurisdiction of a patriarch. In its earliest times, the Eastern Communion contained but two Patriarchates , Alexandria and Antioch. J. M. Neale , Eastern Church, i. 21. 4. A patriarchy or patriarchal community. They thought of nothing but to have great families, that their own relations might swell up to a patriarchate. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), І. 705.