Crossword-Solution: METRONYMIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Metronymic | a. | Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. -- A metronymic appellation. |
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| derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with METRONYMIC (5)
Ethnologists and sociologists have practically concluded, from the amount of evidence now collected, that this maternal or metronymic system was the primitive system of tracing relationships, and that it was succeeded among the European peoples by the paternal system so long ago that the transition from the one to the other has been forgotten, except as some trace of it has been preserved in customs, legends, and the like.
Among many tribes of the North American Indians this metronymic or maternal system was peculiarly well-developed.
Strictly speaking, therefore, there has never been a matriarchal stage of social evolution, but rather a maternal or metronymic stage.
Some writers speak of it as a matriarchal period, but it does not appear that women governed; it is more proper to speak of the family as metronymic, for the children bore the mother's name and maternity outweighed paternity in social estimate.
Descent henceforth was reckoned in the paternal line, and society had become patronymic instead of metronymic.