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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pa·tri·arch·ate /ˈpetriˌɑrkət, ˌket/
 Patriarch的職權

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pa·tri·ar·chate n.
 1. The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.
 2. The residence of an ecclesiastic patriarch.
 3. Ethnol. A patriarchal form of government or society. See Patriarchal, a., 3.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 patriarchate
      n 1: the jurisdiction of a patriarch
      2: a form of social organization in which a male is the family
         head and title is traced through the male line [syn: patriarchy]