Agnate

Definition of Agnate

Ag´nate

a.	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. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. - Landor.
n.	1.	(Civil Law) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

Related Words

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

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