Noun:

இன மரபுக் குழுவில் சமுதாய இனங்களை ஒன்று சேர்த்தல், குல முறைப் பிரிவு,

phratries's Usage Examples:

phratry clans were joined together in 12 unnamed exogamous phratries.

At Athens she presided over the phratries or clans, and was known as airarovpia and 4paTpia, and sacrifice was offered to her at the festival Apaturia.

It is possible that in very early times the Eupatridae were the only full citizens of Athens; for the evidence suggests that they alone belonged to the phratries, and the division into phratries must have covered the whole citizen body.

At Athens it took place in the month of Pyanepsion (October to November), and lasted three days, on which occasion the various phratries (i.

The phratries are divided into many named, matrilineal sibs, each of which is restricted to a specific locality.

On the first day of the festival, called Dorpia or Dorpeia, banquets were held towards evening at the meetingplace of the phratries or in the private houses of members.

Synonyms:

sept, lineage, kinfolk, name, house, family, people, parentage, origin, stemma, gens, pedigree, blood line, line of descent, line, homefolk, dynasty, descent, folk, blood, family line, kinsfolk, stock, ancestry, bloodline,

Antonyms:

purebred, crossbred, disrepute, parent, child,