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AGNATES. In the sense of the Roman law were those whose propinquity was connected by males only; in the relation of cognates, one or more females were interposed.
2. By the Scotch law, agnates are all those who are related by the father, even though females intervene; cognates are those who are related by the mother. Ersk. L. Scot. B. 1, t. 7, s. 4.

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The agnates are in fact fully alive and conscious human beings who are kept isolated in an abandoned underground military bunker. Heading for The Island: The Island portrays the immorality of the ... by DuBord, Steven J. / The New American Exogamous marriage was a means of creating or sealing between families new and hitherto little studied relationships, apparently close and strong to the point that in-laws were not seldom preferred to agnates by testators without direct issue; dowries, which inflated during the century, were protected by legislators, widows were encouraged not to remarry and often granted guardianship of children. Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in ... by Ambrosini, Federica / Renaissance Quarterly In her essay on "Contemporary Jazz and its Agnates," the author synthesizes and simplifies some complex developments so that social influences and their impact on the musicians who created the music of the 1950s through the present may be readily assimilated. Black American Music: Past and Present, 2d ed by Swindell, Warren / African American Review More results

The agnates are in fact fully alive and conscious human beings who are kept isolated in an abandoned underground military bunker.

Heading for The Island: The Island portrays the immorality of the ... by DuBord, Steven J. / The New American

Exogamous marriage was a means of creating or sealing between families new and hitherto little studied relationships, apparently close and strong to the point that in-laws were not seldom preferred to agnates by testators without direct issue; dowries, which inflated during the century, were protected by legislators, widows were encouraged not to remarry and often granted guardianship of children.

Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in ... by Ambrosini, Federica / Renaissance Quarterly

In her essay on "Contemporary Jazz and its Agnates," the author synthesizes and simplifies some complex developments so that social influences and their impact on the musicians who created the music of the 1950s through the present may be readily assimilated.

Black American Music: Past and Present, 2d ed by Swindell, Warren / African American Review

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