Sentence examples for agnate from inspiring English sources
noun
A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
- A great grandfather is an agnate if he is your father's father's father.
This was Cincinnati — the capital of pork, the first truly American city — sprawled before the eyes of two little boys under the momentary aegis of one Mike Shaughnessy, truck driver, halfhearted Lothario, collector of children, poor Irish agnate, known in high school as that fucking Irish fuck.
This was Cincinnati the capital of pork, the first truly American city—sprawled before the eyes of two little boys under the momentary aegis of one Mike Shaughnessy, truck driver, halfhearted Lothario, collector of children, poor Irish agnate, known in high school as that fucking Irish fuck.
The land through which she guides us is flavid, agnate, calcined, karsty.
Failing these heirs, the nearest agnatic relations (relations in the male line of descent) succeeded, and, if there were no agnates, the members of the gens, or clan, of the deceased succeeded.
