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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Agnate \Ag"nate\, noun [Cf. F. agnat.] (Civil Law) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Agnate \Ag"nate\, adjective [L. agnatus, p. p. of agnasci to be born in addition to; ad + nasci (for gnasci) to be born. Cf. {Adnate}.]
1. Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor; as, agnate brother: a brother having the same father, but a different mother; in ths sense it is a correlative of {uterine}.
2. Allied; akin. ''Agnate words.'' --Pownall.
Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. --Landor.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
agnate
adjective: related on the father's side; "a paternal aunt" [syn: {agnatic}, {paternal}]
noun: one related on the father's side [syn: {patrikin}, {patrilineal kin}, {patrisib}, {patrilineal sib}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "agnate": affiliated, affinal, affinitive, akin, alike, allied, analogous, avuncular, closely related, cognate, collateral, comparable, congeneric, congenerous, congenial, connate, connatural, connected, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, conspecific, correlative, corresponding, distantly related, enate, foster, genetically related, german, germane, incident, kindred, matrilateral, matrilineal, matroclinous, novercal, of common source, of the blood, parallel, patrilateral, patrilineal, patroclinous, related, related by blood, sib, sibling, similar, undifferentiated, uniform, uterine
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