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The land through which she guides us is flavid, agnate, calcined, karsty.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
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 Sir Clements R. (Clements Robert) Markham
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
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
Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated; fraternal. <— p.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
