Definition of "patrimonial"

[…] Cluffe, who had had two or three sharp little visits of his patrimonial gout […]

1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

The general evolution is clear: bubbles aside, what we are witnessing is a strong comeback of private capital in the rich countries since 1970, or, to put it another way, the emergence of a new patrimonial capitalism.

2017 , Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Belknap Press, page 173