agnaten.adj.
/ˈaɡneɪt/, U.S. /ˈæɡˌneɪt/ A. n.
A relation through the male line. Also more generally: a relation through the father (not now in technical use).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > paternal kinsman > through female links
agnate1474
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > [noun] > paternal kinsman
agnate1868
1474 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) A1474/5/6 He that is nerest agnet..salbe lauchfull [tutour].
1534 in J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 117 Thay cannot have ony agnat or kinnisman of the father's side.
1585 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 396/1 The nearest agnettis and kinsmen of naturall foulis, ideottis, and furious.
1613 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) III. 262 The said Robert, as nerrest agnat of bluid to thame, was defraudit of the charge of his bairnes.
1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 455 The King of Navarre, to whom, as nearest agnat, the Regencie belonged.
1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. ii. xxx. 169 The Succession in Moveables from the intestat, belongeth to the nearest of Kin; who are the Defunct's whole Agnats, male or female, being the Kinsmen of the Defunct's Father's side, of the nearest Degree.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. vii. 79 We understand by agnates, all who are related by the father, even tho' females interveen.
1798 A. Browne Compend. View Civil Law (new ed.) ii. vi. 189 The son of a father's aunt should be a cognate, not an agnate.
1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 143 Cognates or agnates—affinity or consanguinity—all varieties came alike to them.
1868 Chambers's Encycl. I. 76 Agnates, in the law both of England and Scotland, are persons related through the father, as cognates are persons related through the mother... The intervention of females is immaterial, provided the connection be on the male or paternal side of the house.
1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 60 By agnates are to be understood persons who are of kin through males.
1907 Nelson's Encycl. XII. at Cognates They did not have the same rights of inheritance as the agnates or relations through the male line.
1952 J. F. Holleman Shona Customary Law i. 51 Amongst agnates physical distance is often correlated to genealogical distance, because the members of a family tend to drift apart in the second and subsequent generations.
2004 A. Smedley Women creating Patrilyny x. 203 Forty-eight of the fifty-three men..had primary male agnates available in the village with whom they might have farmed.
B. adj.
1. Of or relating to agnates; related through the male line; = agnatic adj.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > on father's side
agnate1604
paternal1610
agnatical1660
agnatic1715
patrilateral1943
1604 A. Craig Poet. Ess. sig. B Of royall blood her nyest agnat heyre.
1756 G. Harris tr. Justinian Institutions i. xv. 48 Those, who are related to us by a female, are not said to be agnate.
1848 Amer. Rev. Nov. 461/2 The county of Holstein,..being a German fief, apparently devolved on the nearest agnate heirs of the lateral line of Schauenborg-Pinneberg.
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. ix. 199 The Agnate descendants of Shem.
1904 Daily Chron. 22 Mar. 4/6 He occupies the throne to which the Duke of Cambridge formally claimed to be next agnate heir in default of his cousin the Duke of Cumberland.
1955 M. A. Zahra in M. Khadduri & H. J. Liebesny Law in Middle East vi. 173 The basis of agnate relationship is that it runs in the male line.
1996 Middle East Rep. No. 198. 36/3 Custody of children was almost always automatically given to the father or the agnate kin in the event of divorce.
2. figurative.
a. Of the same or a similar kind, akin, related; having the same nature. Cf. cognate adj. 3.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] > related or connected
fastOE
of kin1486
akin1548
alliant1551
consortinga1592
kin1600
conjugate1605
consanguineousa1616
social1620
related1623
relatea1627
connex1653
cognate1655
agnate1686
contiguous1770
connected1789
allied1794
adjoining1869
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. i. 1 The Fœtus is embraced by the Womb, and the Membranes that are agnate to it.
1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. App. I. 168 By a fair reciprocal analysis of the agnate words.
1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 342/1 Persons who are elevated to high rank..assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate, if I may say it, with the former.
1895 Overland Monthly Feb. 135/2 They all agree that Japanese is agnate with Corean or else grew near it for many centuries and that both bear a family relationship to the Manchurian and other languages mentioned.
1920 Hist. Outlook (Philadelphia) 11 12/2 The drill which a conscientious and inspiring teacher of the medieval epoch can give his students in these matters is distinctly as important a method of co-operation with agnate departments as [etc.].
1997 S. Eggins & D. Slade Analysing Casual Conversat. vi. 271 Gossip can be seen to be agnate to exemplums, as they both involve judgment.
b. Linguistics. Of a clause or sentence: having similar semantic content to another.
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1965 H. A. Gleason Ling. & Eng. Gram. 209 A typical pair of agnate sentences.
1966 Florida FL Rep. 4 11/3 There is no agnate passive sentence at all corresponding to this active sentence.
1990 Word 41 162 These arguments rely on linguistic evidence provided by the comparison of agnate clauses, and the identification of meaning contrasts.
2010 H. Hasselgård Adjunct Adverbials in Eng. iv. 86 The adjunct is clause-initial, while in an agnate relative clause it would have been clause-medial.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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