单词 | agnation |
释义 | agnationn. 1. Relationship traced through the male line. Also more generally: relationship traced through the father (not now in technical use).Quot. 1728 is in error. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > relationship by male line agnation1531 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > [noun] > by male or female line cognation1382 agnation1531 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities iii. f. 53v She is not of kynne vnto him by agnation, or by her fathers side, but onely by cognation, or by her mothers syde. ?1585 E. Aggas tr. E. de L'Allouette Catholicke Apologie ii. f. 30 The people..can haue no redresse so long as any male of the bloud royall doe remaine, according to the lawe of the Realme, being the neerest male in agnation to the deceased after the generall custome of France. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie vi. i. 255 The Agnation (which is of the Fathers side) must be preserued entire. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) This Difference was again abolish'd by Justinian, and the Females were re-instated in the Right of Agnation... Hence, Cognation came to take in all the Relations of the Father; and Agnation to be restrained to those of the Mother. a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) ii. iv. 74 Agnation was prefer'd before Cognation, because Cognation proceeded by Persons of the Female Sex, who had no power in the Family. 1832 Q. Jrnl. Agric. 3 No. 14. 266 Mayorazgos [sc. entails] are distinguished into five kinds or classes...The fourth is la regulare, or regular agnation, which calls males and females equally, the latter after the former, in each degree. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 61 There is no agnation between a mother's brother and her son,—only cognation. 1915 W. Goodsell Hist. Family iv. 82 Since males alone could carry on the ancestral worship, relationship and descent were reckoned through males only,—the kinship system known as agnation. 1988 A. Goldhammer tr. D. Barthélemy in G. Duby et al. Hist. Private Life II. ii. 97 The male surname transmitted by agnation was an innovation..unknown before the year 1000, of the aristocracy established in the castles. 2009 J. T. Holmes in S. Bamford & J. Leach Kinship & Beyond ii. 79 Agnation and descent are fundamentally important in the construction of contemporary Luo identity. 2. figurative. Relationship of historical descent or shared features. rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] kinc892 strindc900 i-cundeOE bloodOE kindredOE birtha1250 strainc1275 gesta1300 offspring?a1300 lineagea1330 descentc1330 linec1330 progenya1382 generationc1384 engendrurec1390 ancestry?a1400 genealogya1400 kind?a1400 stranda1400 coming?a1425 bedc1430 descencec1443 descension1447 ligneea1450 originc1450 family1474 originala1475 extraction1477 nativityc1485 parentelea1492 stirpc1503 stem?c1550 race1563 parentage1565 brood1590 ancientry1596 descendance1599 breeding1600 descendancy1603 delineation1606 extract1631 ancestory1650 agnation1782 havage1799 engendure1867 1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. 37 May I not impute this coincidence to some agnation in the language of these different people? 1997 R. Iedema in F. Christie & J. R. Martin Genre & Inst. (2000) iii. 94 The agnation of analytical and hortatory expositions has been recognized and described on the basis of structural similarities..as well as contextual ones. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1531 |
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