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Definition of Agnatic

Agnatic
Agnatic Ag*nat"ic, a. [Cf. F. agnatique.] Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. ``The agnatic succession.' --Blackstone.

Meaning of Agnatic from wikipedia

- Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership...
- relative. In most contexts, it means the inheritance of the firstborn son (agnatic primogeniture); it can also mean by the firstborn daughter (matrilineal...
- Agnatic seniority is a patrilineal principle of inheritance where the order of succession to the throne prefers the monarch's younger brother over the...
- Southeastern Europe, and parts of Italy and Spain in Southern Europe. Its use of agnatic succession governed the succession of kings in kingdoms such as France...
- eligible heirs are heirs male or heirs general – see further primogeniture (agnatic, cognatic, and also equal). Certain types of property p**** to a descendant...
- Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, it is a cadet branch of the Saxon House of Wettin. One agnatic branch currently reigns in Belgium—the descendants of Leopold I—and another...
- had resulted in some politicians holding a favorable view on rescinding agnatic primogeniture (male-only imperial succession) originally implemented in...
- headship by primogeniture of the cadet house of Glücksburg. The headship by agnatic primogeniture of the entire House of Oldenburg is held by Friedrich Ferdinand...
- owed the support he gathered to his Welsh birth and ancestry, being agnatically descended from Rhys ap Gruffydd. He am****ed an army of about 5,000–6...
- to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Nevertheless, they represent the senior agnatic line of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The head of the house bears the...