Definition of "agnate"

agnate

/ˈæɡneɪt/

noun
plural agnates
1. A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
  Quotations
  Men accuse agnates of their own generation of bewitching them.
  2013, John Middleton, E. H. Winter, Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa, page 203
2. Any paternal male relative.
3. (linguistics) A statement having a similar meaning to another, but a different structure.
adjective
comparative more agnate, superlative most agnate
1. Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
2. allied; akin
  Quotations
  Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate […] with the former.
  1829, Walter Savage Landor, “Florentine, English Visitor, and Landor”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume V (second series, volume II), London: James Duncan, […]
3. (linguistics) Having a similar semantic meaning.
  Quotations
  [...] we can talk about a swim, a drink, a look, even though swim, drink and look can also show up as verbs in agnate clauses.
  2013, Thomas Bloor, Meriel Bloor, The Functional Analysis of English