30 June 2018
agnate
[ag-neyt]
noun
1. a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
2. any male relation on the father’s side.
adjective
3. related or akin through males or on the father’s side.
4. allied or akin.
Origin of agnate
Latin
1525-1535; < Latin agnātus paternal kinsman, variant of ad(g)nātus born to (past participle of adgnāscī), equivalent to ad- ad- + -gnā be born + -tus past participle suffix
Related forms
agnatic [ag-nat-ik], agnatical, adjective
agnatically, adverb
agnation [ag-ney-shuh n] (Show IPA), noun
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Examples from the Web for agnate
Historical Examples
The most elementary of these groups is the maegth, the association of agnatic and cognatic relations.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
Various
A woman by her marriage forfeited her agnatic rights, to which rule there was no exception.
Ancient Society
Lewis Henry Morgan
agnatic inheritance would be apt to assert itself in this condition of things.
Ancient Society
Lewis Henry Morgan
The gens is to be found in Greek and Roman history, where it is known as the agnatic kindred.
The Iowa
William Harvey Miner
The importance they attached to the agnatic family is largely explained by their ideas of the future life.
The Private Life of the Romans
Harold Whetstone Johnston
As they understood it, the pater familis had absolute power over his children and other agnatic descendants.
The Private Life of the Romans
Harold Whetstone Johnston
Here again it will be convenient to employ the Roman terms, agnatic and Cognatic relationship.
Ancient Law
Sir Henry James Sumner Maine
This practical limitation of the inheritance to the nearest gentile kin discloses the germ of agnatic nheritance.
Ancient Society
Lewis Henry Morgan
It shows that property was hereditary in the gens, but restricted to the agnatic kindred in the female line.
Ancient Society
Lewis Henry Morgan
Whether the wife forfeited her agnatic rights by her marriage, as among the Romans, I am unable to state.
Ancient Society
Lewis Henry Morgan
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On this day
30 June 1934 – Night of the Long Knives (Operation Hummbingbird), in which Hitler purges his political enemies.
30 June 1937 – The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
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30 June 1959 – US fighter jet, an F-100 Super Sabre, crashes into the Japanese Miyamori Elementary School at Ishikawa (now Uruma) on the US occupied island of Okinawa, Japan, killing 11 students, 6 other people from the neighbouring area and injuring 210 (including 156 students). The pilot, Captain John G. Schmitt Jr, had ejected to safety. The incident was one of many tragic events the Okinawans have suffered since the US occupation.