Agnate
Agnate ({not transcribed}) , adjective
[Latin agnatus, past participle of agnasci to be born in addition to; ad + nasci (for gnasci) to be born. Compare Adnate.]
1.
Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor; as, agnate brother: a brother having the same father, but a different mother; in ths sense it is a correlative of uterine.
2.
Allied; akin.
Agnate words.
Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.
Agnate , noun
[Compare French agnat.]
(Civil Law) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.