patriciate
Americannoun
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the patrician class.
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patrician rank.
noun
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the dignity, position, or rank of a patrician
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the class or order of patricians
Etymology
Origin of patriciate
1650–60; < Medieval Latin patriciātus equivalent to Latin patrici(us) ( see patrician) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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He has nowhere written that territorial riches were the exclusive appanage of the patriciate.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew
Upon the breaking down of the aristocracy of birth, the patriciate, the senate was made accessible to the plebeians who had filled the curule magistracies and were possessed of 800,000 sesterces.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Stephenson, Andrew
It is this simple continuance of the old social organization which the barbarians elsewhere overthrew that explains the peculiar character of the Venetian patriciate.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard
It was composed in the prison to which Theodoric had consigned the wisest of the 15old Roman patriciate; and it is commonly regarded as closing the canon of Roman literature.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by Earle, John
To the Amsterdam patriciate the yearly visit of the Queen is a social function full of interest.
From Dutch Life in Town and Country by Hough, P. M.
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