agnate
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The land through which she guides us is flavid, agnate, calcined, karsty.
From The New Yorker ● May 9, 2016
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 William Gilbert
So, too, if your brother, or your paternal uncle, or even a more remote agnate, adopts any one, that person undoubtedly becomes one of your agnates.
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. <— p.
From Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
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 Daniel De Leon
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