noun

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A clan or kinship group consisting of a number of families claiming descent from a common ancestor and having certain collective functions and responsibilities.

definition

A former kinship division consisting of two or more distinct clans with separate identities but considered to be a single unit.

Examples of phratries in a Sentence

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.

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.

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

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