单词 | matriarchal |
释义 | matriarchaladj. Of the nature of or resembling a matriarch; of, relating to, or based on matriarchy or maternal rule; (Cultural Anthropology) designating or exhibiting a form of social organization characterized by matriarchy. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > [adjective] > matriarchal matriarchal1841 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [adjective] > relating to a family or household > matriarchal female-headed1655 matriarchal1841 matricentric1945 matrifocal1952 matral1956 matricentred1956 1841 Ladies' Repository Jan. 6/2 How uniformly the matriarchal and Israelitish females exemplified this [sc. diligence] and its sister virtues, we cannot determine. 1863 B. Jowett in Life & Lett. (1897) I. xi. 363 They [sc. Tennyson's boys] are getting too old for the matriarchal form of government. 1881 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 Feb. 1/2 [In France] nothing is commoner than that two or three generations should continue to live in the same house... This little community is ordinarily rather matriarchal than patriarchal. It is the eldest of the women who usually organizes and rules it. 1915 C. P. Gilman Herland in Forerunner Jan. 15/2 It's built on a sort of matriarchal principle... The men have a separate cult of their own, less socially developed than the women. 1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. ii. 29 According to Bachofen, there was first everywhere promiscuity, then a matrilineal and matriarchal social system, and only late in the history of man did this system give way to a patrilineal and patriarchal one. 1991 Women 2 115 Our aim..is to offer our readers what they want..as well as what they need, without being matriarchal and condescending. Derivatives matriˈarchalism n. the condition or state of having matriarchal organization or rule. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > rule or government of family or tribe > [noun] > matriarchy or matriarchalism mother-right1881 matriarchalism1884 matriarchate1884 matriarchy1885 metrocracy1888 1884 E. B. Tylor in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 906 Matriarchalism has only in places yielded to the patriarchal system. 1971 Month July 23/2 Bachofen..attributed the decay of both patriarchalism & matriarchalism to the spread of the cult of Dionysos. matriˈarchalist n. an advocate of matriarchalism; a supporter of the theory that tribal society was originally matriarchal in organization. ΘΚΠ the world > people > science of mankind > [noun] > anthropology > theories in > person matriarchalist1885 environmentalist1903 diffusionist1920 parallelist1929 Frazerian1962 1885 E. B. Tylor in Academy 1 Aug. 67/2 The effect which the researches of the matriarchalists had on his mind. 1971 Month July 23/2 It also rejects ordinarily role-neutral liberalism..; even Weber and Lawrence, patriarchalists and matriarchalists alike, began by rejecting that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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