patrimoniallyadv.
/ˌpatrᵻˈməʊnɪəli/, U.S. /ˌpætrəˈmoʊniəli/, /ˌpætrəˈmoʊnjəli/ rare before 20th cent.
By way of patrimony, by inheritance from a father, hereditarily; in a patrimonial manner.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adverb] > by inheritance
hereditably1495
inheritably1561
naturally1561
hereditarily1595
patrimonially1641
1641 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. F. Biondi Hist. Civil Warres Eng. I. v. 125 All..which did patrimonially belong to him in Aniou and Maine.
1700 C. Davenant Disc. Grants & Resumptions Introd. 4 A Distinction between what was their own Patrimonially,..and what the State had an Interest in.
1846 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 11 Apr. 235/1 One almost inevitable..result of being patrimonially exalted above his fellow-creatures..is the creation of a peculiar selfishness.
1959 F. Hardbison & C. A. Myers Managem. in Industr. World iv. 76 Administrators and organization builders may be careerists and they are more professionally than patrimonially or politically oriented.
1993 H. Mayr-Harting in J. McManners Oxf. Hist. Christianity iii. 124 This was a ‘patrimonially’, not a ‘bureaucratically’, governed society.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adv.1641- to take the liberty of
- to take the liberty of doing something
- to take the liberty to do something
- to take the life fro
- to take the life of
- to take the likeness
- to take the little veil
- to take the long view
- to take the manner to
- to take the manners to
- to take the mantle and the ring
- to take the mate
- to take the measure
- to take the measure of
- to take the measures
- to take the met of a person's foot
- to take the michael
- to take the michael out of
- to take the mick
- to take the mick out of
- to take the mickey
- to take the mickey out of
- to take the mike out of
- to take the mitten
- to take the money and run