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

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 Lowell, Percival

Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

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.

From Apu Ollantay A Drama of the Time of the Incas by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

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