Related or akin by the father's side.
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Any male relation by the father's side.
2. Allied; akin.
A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
Agnates
Encyclopedia Britannica
AGNATES(Agnati), in Roman Law, are persons related through males only, as opposed to cognates. Relationship by agnation was founded on the idea of the family held together by the patria potestas; cognatio involves simply the modern idea of kindred.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 1, p. 283
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Consanguinity Roget’s Thesaurus §11
N. consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice &c. removed, near relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation
V. be related to, claim relationship with, with
Adj. related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german
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