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Line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family
Answer for the clue "Line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family ", 8 letters:
agnation
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family [syn: patrilineage ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agnation \Ag*na"tion\, n. [L. agnatio: cf. F. agnation.] 1. (Civil Law) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation . --Bouvier.
Usage examples of agnation.
Party,' the strange-seeming but politically prescient annular agnation of ultra-right jingoist hunt-deer-with-automatic-weapons types and far-left macrobiotic Save-the-Ozone, -Rain-Forests, -Whales, -Spotted-Owl-and-High-pH-Waterways ponytailed granola-crunchers, a surreal union of both Rush L.