 4 definitions found
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 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 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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