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Definition of Agnate
1. Noun. One related on the father's side.
Generic synonyms: Relation, Relative
Derivative terms: Agnatic
2. Adjective. Related on the father's side. "A paternal aunt"
Definition of Agnate
1. a. Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.
2. n. A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
Definition of Agnate
1. Noun. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family. ¹
2. Noun. Any paternal male relative. ¹
3. Adjective. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Agnate
1. a relative on the father's side [n -S] : AGNATIC [adj]
Medical Definition of Agnate
1. 1. Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor. 2. Allied; akin. "Agnate words." "Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former." (Landor) Origin: L. Agnatus, p. P. Of agnasci to be born in addition to; ad + nasci (for gnasci) to be born. Cf. Adnate. A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males. Origin: Cf. F. Agnat. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Agnate
Literary usage of Agnate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Analysis of M. Ortolan's Institutes of Justinian: Including the History and by Thomas Lambert Mears, Joseph-Louis-Elzéar Ortolan (1876)
"Anastasius, in AD 498, allowed emancipated brothers and sisters to take along
with agnate brothers and sisters, though only one-half shares, and the right ..."
2. The Social Legislation of the Primitive Semites by Henry Schaeffer (1915)
"Jeremiah, as the chief agnate, has the right of purchase to the estate. Indeed,
it is his duty to buy the land before it goes into strange hands. ..."
3. Political Dictionary: Forming a Work of Universal Reference, Both by Charles Knight (1845)
"agnate. [CONSANGUINITY.] AGRARIAN LAWS (Agraria; Leges). Those enactments were
called Agrarian laws by the Romans which related to the public lands (Ager ..."
4. Travels Amongst the Todas: Or The Study of a Primitive Tribe in South India by William Elliot Marshall, George Uglow Pope (1873)
"... sacred Herd—Bulls of the Herd—Sanctification of Bulls—agnate law amongst the
To das ; Female succession for their Cattle—Antiquity of Bell-gods. CHAP. ..."
5. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, James Ivory (1824)
"When the next agnate was thus under the age required by law, the Romans admitted
of an interim curator to be named by the magistrate, till the agnate should ..."
6. Introduction to Roman Law: In Twelve Academical Lectures by James Hadley (1907)
"His mother could not, under the freer mar riage, for the same reason : she was
not his agnate" By the stricter marriage she was his agnate ..."
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