patriciate

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Noun
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pa=tri=ci=ate

CIDE DICTIONARY

patriciaten. 
     The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch.  Milman.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

patriciate, n.
1 a patrician order; an aristocracy.
2 the rank of patrician.

Etymology
L patriciatus (as PATRICIAN)

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