a. [ad. Fr. agnatique: see AGNATE and -IC.] Of or pertaining to agnates; related on the father’s side.
1747. Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 365. A lineal agnatic succession.
1880. Muirhead, Gaius, II. 64. The agnatic [L. agnatus] curator of a lunatic is empowered … to alienate his ward’s property.
