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 patriarch ['peitriɑ:k]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 创办人, 家长, 元老, 教长, (天主教)教皇

[法] 家长, 族长, 创始人




    patriarch
    [ noun ]
    1. title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)

    2. <noun.person>
    3. the male head of family or tribe

    4. <noun.person>
    5. any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

    6. <noun.person>
    7. a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself

    8. <noun.person>


    Patriarch \Pa"tri*arch\ (p[=a]"tr[i^]*[aum]rk), n. [F.
    patriarche, L. patriarcha, Gr. paria`rchhs, fr. paria`
    lineage, especially on the father's side, race; path`r father
    + 'archo`s a leader, chief, fr. 'a`rchein to lead, rule. See
    {Father}, {Archaic}.]
    1. The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his
    family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually
    applied to heads of families in ancient history,
    especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who
    lived before the time of Moses.

    2. (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) A dignitary superior to the order of
    archbishops; as, the patriarch of Constantinople, of
    Alexandria, or of Antioch.

    3. A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.

    The patriarch hoary, the sage of his kith and the
    hamlet. --Longfellow.

    The monarch oak, the partiarch of trees. --Dryde.

    1. Khomeini, Iran's 88-year-old revolutionary patriarch, ordered his followers Feb. 14 to kill Rushdie for blaspheming Islam and the prophet Mohammed.
    2. Sunnis generally reject Iranian patriarch Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's brand of Islamic fundamentalism.
    3. So was MacMurray, 80, the patriarch in "My Three Sons" from 1960 to 1972.
    4. His three sons, who grew up with a vision of carrying on the family business, have been driven out after clashes with the family patriarch.
    5. Dimitrios I, the first Greek Orthodox patriarch to visit the United States, arrived Monday and warned that civilization is threatened by a turn away from morality and spirituality.
    6. BARRY BINGHAM SR., patriarch of a media empire, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers, a TV station and a printing company, who sold the properties in 1986 to end a family squabble. At 82.
    7. Frankly speaking, there are 12 Franks in all, at the moment _ 13 if you count the patriarch, 58-year-old Francisco.
    8. A former Kidder Peabody director says: "He viewed himself as the patriarch, the father that gave to everybody."
    9. At first he seemed contrite, then you began to see how wicked he could be." Jim Davis, who played Jock, the patriarch of the Ewings, died in 1981.
    10. He has the required religious status but lacks the patriarch's presence and authority, and his power base has been eroded by Rafsanjani's maneuvering.
    11. Authors have led demonstrations of outrage at the threat from Iran's fundamentalist patriarch, who has refused to accept Rushdie's apology, and President Bush has called the threat an insult to the civilized world.
    12. The 87-year-old revolutionary patriarch has lived for several years in Jamaran, a northern Tehran suburb.
    13. The revolutionary patriarch died June 3.
    14. On Friday, Iran's revolutionary patriarch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, said the war with Iran was not over despite Iran's acceptance Monday of a U.N. cease-fire resolution.
    15. In both, he portrays a farming village patriarch, Cesar Soubeyran.
    16. The action runs throughout one evening on the family plantation where Brick's father, the old patriarch Big Daddy, is dying of cancer.
    17. A patriarch of the Crow Indian Tribe who once turned down the post of commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs has died at age 98.
    18. The 85-year-old party patriarch, in remarks audible in an evening news report on the meeting, said he sometimes swims for up to one hour. "I don't like indoor swimming pools, but enjoy swimming in nature," he told the professor.
    19. Moreover, Wall Street speculates that the restructuring at Campbell is being prompted by members of the Dorrance family, who hold the 58% of Campbell stock that had been controlled by the family patriarch, Jack Dorrance, who died this spring.
    20. On the first anniversary since the revolutionary patriarch's death June 3, Ahmad Khomeini said his father, known as the Imam, constantly defied "global arrogance," an Iranian phrase for United States and its allies.
    21. While Lebanon's Christian patriarch voiced backing for the plan, Christian Gen.
    22. His appeals for cease-fires and threats of excommunication have gone unheeded, a far cry from the days when Maronite politicians took their instructions from the patriarch.
    23. The Russian Orthodox patriarch was shown on Soviet television last Christmas; Christmas and Easter may become official holidays again.
    24. Officials in London said Britain asked Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze to press the Iranian patriarch, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, to lift his command that followers kill Salman Rushdie, author of the novel Moslems call blasphemous.
    25. "We must take it that we are still at war," the 88-year-old religious patriarch declared.
    26. There are Chaldeans, a Catholic sect with origins in the Persian Gulf; the Copts from ancient Egypt, and the Maronites, an Eastern sect based in Lebanon with a patriarch recognized by the pope.
    27. The church long been pilloried by others Christians, allegedly for following the teachings of Nestorius, an excommunicated 5th century patriarch of Constantinople.
    28. They provide an amusing way of getting to know the family Farr and its patriarch Henry, the fat middle-aged solicitor who tried to poison his wife in Williams's The Wimbledon Poisoner. The underlying humour of is pointed up by the jokes.
    29. Later in the day the patriarch went to Boston, the final stop on the first ever U.S. visit by a holder of his office.
    30. But Al-Thawra's commentary also called Khomeini a "grudge-bearing tyrant" and described Iran as "disunited and confused." Iran's revolutionary patriarch died Sunday after suffering a heart attack while recovering from stomach surgery.
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