亚洲网紅露点

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agnate

[ ag-neyt ]

noun

  1. a relative whose connection is traceable exclusively through males.
  2. any male relation on the father's side.


adjective

  1. related or akin through males or on the father's side.
  2. allied or akin.

agnate

/ 藞忙伞ne瑟t; 忙伞藞n忙t瑟k /

adjective

  1. related by descent from a common male ancestor
  2. related in any way; cognate
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a male or female descendant by male links from a common male ancestor
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 补驳藞苍补迟颈辞苍, noun
  • agnatic, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 补驳路苍补迟路颈肠 [ag-, nat, -ik], 补驳路苍补迟顎僫路肠补濒 adjective
  • 补驳路苍补迟顎僫路肠补濒路ly adverb
  • 补驳路苍补路迟颈辞苍 [ag-, ney, -sh, uh, n], noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of agnate1

First recorded in 1450鈥1500; from Latin 补驳苍腻迟耻蝉 鈥減aternal kinsman,鈥 variant of 补诲(驳)苍腻迟耻蝉 鈥渂orn to鈥 (past participle of 补诲驳苍腻蝉肠墨 ), equivalent to ad- ad- + -驳苍腻 鈥渂e born鈥 + -tus past participle suffix
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of agnate1

C16: from Latin 补驳苍腻迟耻蝉 born in addition, added by birth, from 补驳苍腻蝉肠颈, from ad- in addition + 驳苍腻蝉肠颈 to be born
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Example Sentences

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Rather than writing that one thing is like another, she suggested, pupils might use 鈥渃ommensurate鈥 or 鈥渁gnate,鈥 which means related through male descent or on the father鈥檚 side.

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The grand duchy, being hereditary only in the male line, passed to the nearest agnate, the duke of Nassau.

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Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.

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Failing an agnate, a member of the gens of the dead man is to inherit.

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Besides, magnetick mines are only agnate to the true earth, not innate: hence the whole globe does not regard them, and magneticks are not borne to them, as is demonstrated by the diagram of eminences.

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