agnation
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Latin agnatio: compare French agnation.
Noun
[edit]agnation (countable and uncountable, plural agnations)
- consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation
- 1803, William Alexander Hunter, A Systematic and Historical Exposition of Roman Law in the Order of a Code:
- Between an uncle and his sister's son, therefore, there is no agnation, but only kinship
- 1986, John L. Comaroff, Simon Roberts, Rules and Processes, →ISBN, page 226:
- Furthermore, for reasons that will by now be obvious, interhouse relations represent a paradigm for the politics of agnation at large: any competition for influence or position among patrilateral kin is, in essence, a rivalry between houses produced by a shared ancestor and reproduced across the generations, and particular units, whether or not they take the initiative in such processes, are ultimately drawn into their purview (see chap. 2).
- (grammar) The property of being agnate.