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Definition of: agnate
(ag′nāt) adjective
1. Related on the male or the father's side.
2. Akin; similar.
—noun A relative in the male line only. Compare COGNATE, ENATE. [<F agnat <L agnatus a relation (on the father's side), orig., added by birth, pp. of agnasci be born in addition to < ad- to + nasci be born]
—ag·nat·ic (ag·nat′ik) adjective
—ag·nat′i·cal·ly adverb
—ag·na·tion (ag·nā′shən) noun
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