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.