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adjective
Agnate  adj.  
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.
2.
Allied; akin. "Agnate words." "Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former."





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"Agnate" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Ballone, to whom his uncle, Kenneth Mackenzie, I. of Scatwell, has a retour of Tutory in 1656 as "nearest agnate-uncle on the father's side," Alexander being then under age. In 1673 he received a disposition and charter from his cousin, Sir George Mackenzie of Tarbat, afterwards first Earl of Cromarty, followed by a sasine in the same year of the lands of Ballone, and others. In 1708 he has a charter under ...
— History Of The Mackenzies • Alexander Mackenzie


Words linked to "Agnate" :   agnatic, related, patrisib, relative, patrilineal kin, paternal, relation, patrilineal sib, patrikin


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