agnate

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The land through which she guides us is flavid, agnate, calcined, karsty.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

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 De Leon, Daniel

Besides, magnetick mines are only agnate to the true earth, not innate: hence the whole globe does not regard them, and magneticks are not borne to them, as is demonstrated by the diagram of eminences.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

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

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 Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir