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Meanings of patrimonial in English

Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent.

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Examples for "hereditary"
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In families with a hereditary form, there is a clear genotype-phenotype correlation.
Pubmed
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The office of midwife was hereditary in the family of the basket-maker.
Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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I think a large part is diet but, unfortunately, it's also hereditary.
Ebony
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Purpose: High myopia is a severe hereditary ocular disease leading to blindness.
Pubmed
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For the McCain family the Grand National has become an hereditary prize.
The Guardian
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The ancestral group was small and local; the descendants are widely spread.
The Story of Evolution
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Bailey recently took part in a National Geographic study into ancestral DNA.
Radio NZ
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Now, almost two decades later, Sajad could barely recall his ancestral home.
The Guardian
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So far his progress over the game's ancestral manor has been blessed.
The Guardian
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But so are our traditional, cultural, ancestral beliefs as well, she said.
Radio NZ
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Coronavirus is not transmissible via transfusion, according to the American Red Cross.
Reuters
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Making matters worse is that covid-19's virus is transmissible before symptoms appear.
The economist
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Epigenetic alterations have been proposed as underlying mechanisms for such transmissible effects.
Pubmed
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Population-based studies suggest that drug-resistant HIV-1 is less transmissible than drug-susceptible viruses.
Pubmed
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The knowledge, if knowledge it be, of the mystic is not transmissible.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
Usage of patrimonial in English
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Item: the patrimonial mansion at Bordeaux taxed for nine hundred francs.
The Marriage Contract
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The five hundred pounds withdrawn from his patrimonial inheritance had multiplied into thousands.
The Virginians
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This harshness drove the Indians, decimated, drunken, and diseased, from their patrimonial lands.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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As if the burning down of one patrimonial estate could shatter my nerves!
Polly Oliver's Problem
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Light rest the turf upon him beneath his own patrimonial oaks!
The Conflict with Slavery / Part 1 from The Works of John Greenl...
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The patrimonial state of the Middle Ages was the hereditary possession of the Sovereign.
Germany and the Next War
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Mr. Esmond called his American house Castlewood, from the patrimonial home in the old country.
The Virginians
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In the ensuing spring he repeated his demand of the princess Honoria, and her patrimonial treasures.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3
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The moment represented is a plebiscite in their little patrimonial town in the center of Sicily.
The new yorker
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Under quarantine, notaries have only practised in emergency cases, when halting transactions caused patrimonial or financial loss.
Reuters
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Since then it has remained in the same family, its pride, its patrimonial jewel, its Regent diamond.
La Grenadiere
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This was the familiar appellation of a young gentleman, who really had no other, baptismal or patrimonial.
Sybil, Or, The Two Nations
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Moreover, this ungenerous diversion was the bane and destruction of thousands, who thus dissipated their patrimonial fortunes.
The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 2 (of 2)
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The main surprise is the return of what I call this patrimonial society with a high wealth-to-income ratio.
Reuters
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Piketty also stresses that wealth inequality is by no means an accident but a product of patrimonial capitalism.
The South African
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To transmit the family cult and the patrimonial field to an heir is the first duty of man.
Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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