patriarchal

patriarchal is an Adverb

Definition:

[1] Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.

[2] Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable. About whose patriarchal knee Late the little children clung. Tennyson.

[3] Having an organization of society and government in which the head of the family exercises authority over all its generations. Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being the smaller. See Illust.

[4] of Cross. -- Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.