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
Failing an agnate, a member of the gens of the dead man is to inherit.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Thus the son of your father's sister is no agnate of yours, but merely your cognate, and vice versa; for children are member's of their father's family, and not of your mother's.
From The Institutes of Justinian by John Baron Moyle
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
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
