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agnate

ADJECTIVE
  1. related on the father's side
    a paternal aunt
NOUN
  1. one related on the father's side

How To Use agnate In A Sentence

  • The mancipable (conveyable or movable) possessions of a woman who is under tutelage of [her] agnates [18] shall not be acquired rightfully by usucapion (long usage or long possession), save if these The Twelve Tables
  • By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
  • Unreformed, the modern welfare state will stagnate under its own weight. Times, Sunday Times
  • In return for this patronage, magnates expected their clients, tenants, and neighbors — their "affinities" — to support them with men, arms, and money when the magnate needed military resources. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
  • And the connection must be through an agnate ancestor some generations older than the Royal personage.
  • We'll just stagnate, and there could be nothing for Fisticuffs or Oliver or Isa, to take over. THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
  • Should we continue to stagnate or retrogress while the rest of the world moves forward? ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Yet, in the absence of the traditional ruling magnates to supervise border rule and defence, the region's precarious peace dissolved into feuds and reiving.
  • This second column on “Tycoons, New England, and Kings,” covers the royal descents, and much New England ancestry, for 10 families long associated with American industry, finance, merchandising, railroads, and media, for whom such lines were first brought into the family not by the fortune-finder himself, but by his wife, daughter-in-law, granddaughter-in-law, or the wife of a later agnate descendant.
  • As the Protestant middle classes began to withdraw from Unionist politics, the quality of the candidates sank and the party stagnated.
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