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noun

Agnate n. (Civil Law) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

adjective

Agnate adj.

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor; as, agnate brother: a brother having the same father, but a different mother; in ths sense it is a correlative of uterine.

Allied; akin. "Agnate words." "Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former."

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Etymology of 'Agnate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Agnate" Quotes from Famous Books

... III. By a formal emancipation, which took place rarely, and then often only with a view of transferring the power from one guardian to another.[11] Even when sui iuris a woman could not acquire power over any one, not even over her own children[12]; for these an agnate—a male relative on the father's side—was appointed guardian, and the mother was obliged to render him and her children an account of any property which she had managed for them.[13] On the other hand, her children were bound to ...

— A Short History of Women's Rights • Eugene A. Hecker

... Moreover, the daughter of the Anta chief was married to the Inca Uira-cocha, and was the mother of Pachacuti. Assuming, as seems probable, that Ollantay was a son of the chief of Anta, he would be a cousin of the Inca, and of very high rank, though not an agnate of the reigning family. This, I take it, is what is intended. Pachacuti desired to raise his family high above all others, and that, consequently, there should be no marriages with subjects even of the highest rank; and his ...

— Apu Ollantay - A Drama of the Time of the Incas • Sir Clements R. Markham

... &c. 166; stirps, side; strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation. V. be related to &c. adj. claim relationship with &c. n. with. Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal. ...

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