单词 | agnatical |
释义 | agnaticaladj. = agnatic adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adjective] > on father's side agnate1604 paternal1610 agnatical1660 agnatic1715 patrilateral1943 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 99 in Justice Vindicated Lineal, agnatical, cognatical or collateral [descent]. 1682 W. Evats tr. H. Grotius Rights War & Peace ii. vii. 130 There is..another lineal succession of Males only which is called Agnatical [L. est & alia linealis successio agnatica], which differs from Cognatical, in that it excludes Females, and admits only of Males. 1703 tr. S. von Pufendorf Of Law of Nature & Nations vii. vii. 216/1 The other kind of Lineal Succession, or the Agnatical,..excludes, from the Crown, the Females and their Descendants for ever. 1846 Times 6 Oct. 8/6 That the care of certain agnatical claims of succession is not the affair of the subjects we have already pointed out. 1966 G. I. Jones in J. Goody Succession to High Office (1979) 68 Persons of the highest rank were those most closely related by agnatical links to the ruling chief. 2000 K. Finkler Experiencing New Genetics i. ii. 23 The Melpa of Melanesia..believe that the paternal substance is shared among males in the patrilineal line (agnatical). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1660 |
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