Looking at what is happening now in 'ghanistan and Iraq, one might come to question agnation building. ag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference

When will the laws of heredity, and the by-laws of agnation result in an altruism, where human bloodshed is an unknown horror?.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Mercy of Tiberius] Reference

The agnates, who were an important class of kinsmen, in the early Roman law were cognates connected through males either by blood relationship or by the artificial tie of agnation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

This hard rule again the praetors did not leave entirely without correction, though their remedy, which consisted in the admission of such persons, since they were excluded from the rights of agnation, in the rank of cognates, was inadequate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

Each of these is essentially ancestor-worship, the ancestors being reckoned back through family groups, of higher and higher order, sometimes with strict reference to the principle of agnation, as in old Rome; and, as in the latter, it is intimately bound up with the whole organisation of the State.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study] Reference

8 The degrees of agnation are also reckoned in the same manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

'consobrini, are one another's agnates, so that it is easy to arrive at various degrees of agnation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

But when our Autarch came for us and we woke to life, we found no agnation in all that we had studied. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

3 Loss of status of any kind ordinarily extinguishes rights by agnation, for agnation is a title of civil law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

N. - state of being unable to swallow. adj. - having same male forefather; allied; Law, related on father's side; n. such relative. agnation, agnathous adj. - lacking jaws. agnathia, n. agnoiology.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

2 The relation of agnation can also be established by adoption, for instance, between a man's own sons and those whom he has adopted, all of whom are properly called consanguinei in relation to one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference

We, however, have followed the Twelve Tables in this department of law, and adhered to their principles: and, while we commend the praetors for their sense of equity, we cannot hold that their remedy was adequate; for when the degree of natural relationship was the same, and when the civil title of agnation was conferred by the older law on males and females alike, why should males be allowed to succeed all their agnates, and women (except sisters) be debarred from succeeding any?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Institutes of Justinian] Reference