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5 definitions for agnate From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Agnate \Ag"nate\, a. [L. agnatus, p. p. of agnasci to be born in
addition to; ad + nasci (for gnasci) to be born. Cf.
Adnate.]
1. 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.
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2. Allied; akin. "Agnate words." --Pownall.
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Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but
congenial and agnate with the former. --Landor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Agnate \Ag"nate\, n. [Cf. F. agnat.] (Civil Law)
A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively
through males.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 :
agnate
adj : related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn: agnatic,
paternal]
n : one related on the father's side [syn: patrikin, patrilineal
kin, patrisib, patrilineal sib]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "agnate":
affiliated, affinal, affinitive, akin, alike, allied, analogous,
avuncular, closely related, cognate, collateral, comparable,
congeneric, congenerous, congenial, connate, connatural, connected,
consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, conspecific,
correlative, corresponding, distantly related, enate, foster,
genetically related, german, germane, incident, kindred,
matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous, novercal,
of common source, of the blood, parallel, patrilateral,
patrilineal, patroclinous, related, related by blood, sib, sibling,
similar, undifferentiated, uniform, uterine
From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :
AGNATES. In the sense of the Roman law were those whose propinquity was
connected by males only; in the relation of cognates, one or more females
were interposed.
2. By the Scotch law, agnates are all those who are related by the
father, even though females intervene; cognates are those who are related by
the mother. Ersk. L. Scot. B. 1, t. 7, s. 4.
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