agnate
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
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
Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
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
