agnate

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

Rather than writing that one thing is like another, she suggested, pupils might use “commensurate” or “agnate,” which means related through male descent or on the father’s side.

The grand duchy, being hereditary only in the male line, passed to the nearest agnate, the duke of Nassau.

Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.

Agnate, ag′nāt, adj. related on the father's side: allied.—n. a relation by the father's side.—adjs.