agnaticallyadv.
/aɡˈnatᵻkli/, /əɡˈnatᵻkli/, U.S. /æɡˈnædək(ə)li/ Through the male line; by agnation.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [adverb] > on father's side
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1861 H. S. Maine Anc. Law v. 149 All persons are Agnatically connected together who are under the same Paternal Power.
1921 Japan Advertiser 23 Sept. 4/3 There may have been some vague idea..that an indefinite series of generations, descended agnatically from British subjects and born in such countries, are themselves British subjects.
1959 D. J. Stenning Savannah Nomads i. ii. 46 The lineage group aims, primarily, at keeping a young woman to betroth her to one of its own young men... Secondly, it passes her on to a lineage group which is believed to be related agnatically.
1991 Classical Q. New Ser. 41 313 As the absence of matrilinear genealogies and king-lists clearly shows, it was only the agnatically reckoned descent that eventually counted.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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