(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 21:41:28

Ag*nat"ic (#), a. [Cf. F. agnatique.]

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

"The agnatic succession."

Blackstone.

 

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