patriarchal : Idioms & Phrases

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Patriarchal cross

  • noun a cross with two crossbars
WordNet
  • (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust. (2) of Cross.
Webster 1913

Patriarchal dispensation

  • the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.
Webster 1913