(eventually seventeen) were summoned, but for ordinary meetings for the purpose of money levies only those of the so-called patrimonial or old. From Wordnik.com. [History of Holland] Reference
It is a crime against the patrimonial gods what they are doing. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Whales Is Missing] Reference
But the patrimonial gods were not yet finished with Rick Renard. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Whales Is Missing] Reference
Derwentwater returned from the continent to his patrimonial property at. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Item: the patrimonial mansion at Bordeaux taxed for nine hundred francs. From Wordnik.com. [A Marriage Contract] Reference
Some rooters, of course, reject or rebel against their patrimonial birthright. From Wordnik.com. [My Tribe Can Beat Your Tribe] Reference
Since then it has remained in the same family, its pride, its patrimonial jewel, its. From Wordnik.com. [La Grenadiere] Reference
In his solitude, anxieties about his patrimonial property added to the sorrows of the exile. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Mr. Esmond called his American house Castlewood, from the patrimonial home in the old country. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
The five hundred pounds withdrawn from his patrimonial inheritance had multiplied into thousands. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
I had run through my patrimonial estate; but hoped, by my marriage with Matilda, to repair my shattered fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 361, Supplementary Issue (1829)] Reference
I thanked the patrimonial gods of public relations for Ragnar Ragnarsson and set off in a taxi for Snaffelsfjord. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Whales Is Missing] Reference
To be agriculturists on their own patrimonial inheritances, was with them the grand claim to honorable estimation. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4] Reference
Yet the type of authority the Dutch were articulating here was more that of what Weber calls "patrimonial authority.". From Wordnik.com. [How Taiwan Became Chinese] Reference
It must also be remembered that Donald Cameron was at this time only nominally the proprietor of the patrimonial estates. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
Again: we profess to have lopped from our democratic tree the old-world customs of hereditary title and patrimonial honor. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
And it was the patrimonial right of our tribe to take toll from all alike, from victors and vanquished, from pursuers and pursued. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Destiny] Reference
The reduction of the insubordinate nobles on the patrimonial estates of the crown was the first problem engaging the attention of the early. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
In addition to these family honours, Lord Nithisdale possessed rich patrimonial estates in one of the most fertile and luxuriant counties in. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
For now there seems to be a wide popular consensus around the shape of the new Sri Lanka: patrimonial, nepotistic, nationalistic and militarized. From Wordnik.com. [Rajapaksa Makes a Move] Reference
The fund disputed the claim on the basis of legislation prohibiting a person married in community of property from suing their spouse for patrimonial damages. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
At the Sussex election, in 1807, an elector, named Morton, voted in right of his patrimonial land at Rusper, which had been in possession of his ancestors 750 years. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831] Reference
The title is now extinct, but the family survives in a younger branch, and still holds this patrimonial estate, though they have long since quitted it as a residence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
Many years afterwards, when living in opulence upon his patrimonial estate at Dysart in Fife, the Master received from an humble individual a bitter, though involuntary reproach. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
You talked about the collapse of the patrimonial state. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
Maurice of Nassau -- of whose patrimonial property the city of. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
The emblematic representative of patrimonial capitalism is the institutional investor. From Wordnik.com. [t r u t h o u t] Reference
Rebekah and Jacob hatched a plot to secure the patrimonial blessing for Jacob instead of Esau. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
This patrimonial state arrangement is not sustainable, because it is only going to take us down the road to Somalia. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
Robbery, theft, patrimonial damage, and injury to person and property, were private trespasses, and not punished by the state. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
It is directed not on status preservation, and on movement towards the patrimonial program of development and self-maintenance. From Wordnik.com. [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference
Jua argues that bad management was deliberately tolerated and financed by the regime as part of its neo-patrimonial control system. From Wordnik.com. [Up Station Mountain Club] Reference
These are really heart of the nature of the patrimonial state, a personalization for material favour so it is not where is Nigeria going?. From Wordnik.com. [AllAfrica News: Latest] Reference
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