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Dictionary Results for agnation:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
agnation
    n 1: line of descent traced through the paternal side of the
         family [syn: patrilineage, agnation]
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      [1913 Webster]
3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
AGNATION, in descents. The relation by blood which exists between such males
as are descended from the same father; in distinction from cognation or
consanguinity, which includes the descendants from females. This term is
principally used in the civil law.
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