Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PA'TRI-ARCH-ISM
PA'TRI-ARCH-ATE, or PA'TRI-ARCH-SHIPPA'TRI-ARCH-Y
PA'TRI-ARCH-ISM, n.
Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family, who was both ruler and priest, as Noah, Abraham and Jacob.
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