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
Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal. intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied; german.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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
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
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
