Find the word definition

Crossword clues for agnation

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Agnation

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.

Wiktionary
agnation

n. consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation

WordNet
agnation

n. line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family [syn: patrilineage]

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.