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Definition of agnate in English: agnatenoun ˈaɡneɪtˈæɡneɪt Law A person descended from the same male ancestor as another specified or implied person, especially through the male line. the heir will be the nearest agnate Example sentencesExamples - The deceased's closest agnate, Amalyce, also claimed that he didn't know where they were.
- A protagonist's supporters, mostly close agnates, are motivated to assist because of the desire to help a brother, that is through conventional motivation.
- Men's social identity is almost entirely connected to the reputation of their agnatic Houses as well as the nature of their relations with agnates.
- Most of these marriages were strongly resisted by the kinsfolk of the parties, particularly those that involved agnates from the same village, though none of them were from the same hamlet.
- To make things more complicated, all distinction between agnates and cognates in matters of succession had been abolished at the very time when the great collection of Roman law, the Corpus juris civilis, had been assembled and codified.
adjective ˈaɡneɪtˈæɡneɪt Law Descended from the same male ancestor as another specified or implied person, especially through the male line. Compare with cognate (sense 2 of the adjective) Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- And the connection must be through an agnate ancestor some generations older than the Royal personage.
- He was an agnate descendant of Saint James the Just, Patriarch of Israel and first Christian Bishop of Jerusalem, and as such, head of the Royal Davidic House of Israel.
- A known agnate descendant of his brother Jarvis Wingfield was tested and shown to be a definite non-match to the profile closely shared by the descendants of the 3 brothers and the descendant of the English Wingfield.
- Leo's great site however shows Sir William and Margaret (Morville) Washington as having had a son Robert, agnate ancestor of President George Washington.
Derivatives adjective aɡˈnatɪkæɡˈnædɪk Law Inheritance is based partly on agnation, and agnatic kin are theoretically all potential heirs to each other's livestock and other wealth. Example sentencesExamples - Moreover, they are seen as typical of most other Macedonian and south Slav societies whose agnatic kinship structures have been the focus of many anthropological studies.
- Companies are best characterized as being of diverse composition; some consist only of kin, others of members of a variety of agnatic groups and include nonkin.
- In Capari I found that men generally exaggerated both their independence from women in decision-making and the significance of their agnatic kin over their affines and/or matrilateral kin.
- Descent has an agnatic bias, as shown in property inheritance.
noun aɡˈneɪʃ(ə)næɡˈneɪʃ(ə)n Law Roman law distinguished between agnation (a relation through a male person) and cognation (a relation through either a male or a female person). Example sentencesExamples - Inheritance is based partly on agnation, and agnatic kin are theoretically all potential heirs to each other's livestock and other wealth.
- And even an unreal cognation was inferred from real agnation not based on blood: e. g. an adoptive child might claim succession under the edict among cognates if he had omitted to assert his civil law right as an agnate.
- Simic and Rheubottom's conclusions about the nature of women's power and authority draws on widespread prejudices in the literature that privilege the ideals of agnation over the lived reality of women in households.
- The stress on agnation in inheritance and family relations and the masculinity of labour in hill farming, tied to the apparent primary social significance of men certainly seem to position women as minor players.
Origin Late 15th century (as a noun): from Latin agnatus, from ad- 'to' + gnatus, natus 'born'. Definition of agnate in US English: agnatenounˈæɡneɪtˈaɡnāt Law A person descended from the same male ancestor as another specified or implied person, especially through the male line. the heir will be the nearest agnate Example sentencesExamples - To make things more complicated, all distinction between agnates and cognates in matters of succession had been abolished at the very time when the great collection of Roman law, the Corpus juris civilis, had been assembled and codified.
- Most of these marriages were strongly resisted by the kinsfolk of the parties, particularly those that involved agnates from the same village, though none of them were from the same hamlet.
- A protagonist's supporters, mostly close agnates, are motivated to assist because of the desire to help a brother, that is through conventional motivation.
- Men's social identity is almost entirely connected to the reputation of their agnatic Houses as well as the nature of their relations with agnates.
- The deceased's closest agnate, Amalyce, also claimed that he didn't know where they were.
adjectiveˈæɡneɪtˈaɡnāt Law Descended from the same male ancestor as another specified or implied person, especially through the male line. Compare with cognate (sense 2 of the adjective) Example sentencesExamples - Leo's great site however shows Sir William and Margaret (Morville) Washington as having had a son Robert, agnate ancestor of President George Washington.
- He was an agnate descendant of Saint James the Just, Patriarch of Israel and first Christian Bishop of Jerusalem, and as such, head of the Royal Davidic House of Israel.
- 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.
- A known agnate descendant of his brother Jarvis Wingfield was tested and shown to be a definite non-match to the profile closely shared by the descendants of the 3 brothers and the descendant of the English Wingfield.
- And the connection must be through an agnate ancestor some generations older than the Royal personage.
Origin Late 15th century (as a noun): from Latin agnatus, from ad- ‘to’ + gnatus, natus ‘born’. |