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Meanings of agnatic in English

Related on the father's side.

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        Examples for "paternal"
        1
        His paternal forbears were responsible for bringing Mahatma Gandhi to South Africa.
        The South African
        2
        Furthermore, our study was prospective and population based and included paternal inheritance.
        Pubmed
        3
        The paternal laugh was echoed by Joseph, who thought the joke capital.
        Vanity Fair
        4
        There were no associations between paternal age and metabolism in any group.
        Pubmed
        5
        Even his political ambitions took a back seat to his paternal love.
        Ghosts
        1
        There were tribes where the basis of kinship was agnate, but these were the exceptions.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        2
        In Korea, for instance, he can only adopt an agnate and one of a lower generation than his own.
        The Soul of the Far East
        3
        But persons related only by blood through females are not agnates, but merely cognates.
        The Institutes of Justinian
        4
        At Le Locle, in the Jura, he wrote Agnate and the Merman; and in October 1834 he arrived in Rome.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        5
        In default of a testamentary guardian, the statute of the Twelve Tables assigns the guardianship to the nearest agnates, who are hence called statutory guardians.
        The Institutes of Justinian
        Usage of agnatic in English
        1
        Thus transition was made possible from an agnatic society based on blood ties to one based on contiguity.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        Frequent collocations
        Agnatic through the time