agnate

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The land through which she guides us is flavid, agnate, calcined, karsty.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

The grand duchy, being hereditary only in the male line, passed to the nearest agnate, the duke of Nassau.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

Besides, magnetick mines are only agnate to the true earth, not innate: hence the whole globe does not regard them, and magneticks are not borne to them, as is demonstrated by the diagram of eminences.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal. <— p.

From Roget's Thesaurus by Roget, Peter Mark

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