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Paternoster
- noun - (Roman Catholic Church) the Lord's Prayer in Latin; translates as `our father'
- a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor
Pathfinders
- noun - someone who can find paths through unexplored territory
- The Pathfinders were target-marking squadrons in RAF Bomber Command during World War II.
Pathologies
- noun - any deviation from a healthy or normal condition
- the branch of medical science that studies the causes and nature and effects of diseases
Pathologist
- noun - a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis
Patisseries
- noun - a bakery specializing in French pastry
Patriarchal
- adjective - characteristic of a form of social organization in which the male is the family head and title is traced through the male line
- relating to or characteristic of a man who is older or higher in rank
Patriarches
- noun - a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
- any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
- the male head of family or tribe
- title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
Patriarchic
- adjective - (of societies) being ruled by or having descent traced through the male line
Patrilineal
- adjective - based on or tracing descent through the male line; "a patrilineal society"