Definition of "patrilineally" []

• By descent through the male line (adverb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "As a Conservative rabbi and a member of the Rabbinical Assembly, I cannot officially consider Jewish descent to be determined patrilineally from the father."
• ""It was common cause in the court a quo that for five generations the chieftainship of the tribe descended patrilineally and according to the system of male primogeniture," commented the"
• "Women were organized matrilineally and men patrilineally, with marriage being endogamous."