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. <— p.

From Roget's Thesaurus by Roget, Peter Mark

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