agnate
Example Sentences
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The land through which she guides us is flavid, agnate, calcined, karsty.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
So, too, if your brother, or your paternal uncle, or even a more remote agnate, adopts any one, that person undoubtedly becomes one of your agnates.
From The Institutes of Justinian by John Baron Moyle
In Korea, for instance, he can only adopt an agnate and one of a lower generation than his own.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
When the father died, the nearest male of kin, even though declared unqualified as an agnate, came in as guardian.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
The motive to the act was not so generally childlessness, or the gratification of affection, as the desire to acquire those civil and agnate rights which were founded on the patria potestas.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
