agnatic

The hypothesized transition from "Early" to "Late Iron Age" circa A.D. 1000 is also said to have included a general movement of settlements from river valleys to hilltops and possibly to have coincided with the origins of the shift from matrilineal to patrilineal kinship, agnatic inheritance, and virilocal marriage among Shona, Sotho, and Nguni peoples south of the Zambezi.

Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005

This was the power held by the oldest surviving male ascendant (paterfamilias) over the property, conduct, and survival of his agnatic descendants—sons, unmarried daughters, grandchildren by sons, married daughters in sine manu relationships, and daughters-in-law if married with manus, plus slaves (these together constituted the familia).

c. Economy, Society, and Culture 2001

Beyond the agnatic family, the larger social group was the clan (naf, toxum, or gohr) which comprised several dozen families whose heads shared a common ancestor and within which endogamous marriage was the rule.

F. The Neo-Persian Empire of the Sassanians, 223-651 C.E 2001

First to be discerned is a distinctively Greek element of an agnatic type associated with certain essentially masculine aspects of deities: Zeus (cf. Cook), Poseidon, and Hades; of complex figures like Hermes (cf. Vernant).

MYTH IN ANTIQUITY PIERRE-MAXIME SCHUHL 1968

And as the legal manumission dissolved a son's previous agnatic relationships, so, too, the person baptized gave up father and mother, &c., and became one of a society of brethren the bond between whom was not physical but spiritual.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various

The most elementary of these groups is the _maegth_, the association of agnatic and cognatic relations.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

The family of the _ius civile_ is the agnatic family; the family of the _ius gentium_ is the cognatic family.

The Twelve Tables Anonymous

Emancipated children and non-agnatic cognates did not succeed, since they were no part of the family.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

In the latter case the community, or the group of tribes, may, perhaps for geographical reasons, not have independently attained the predatory culture in accentuated form, but may at a relatively late date have contracted the agnatic system and the paternal household through contact with another, higher, or characteristically different, culture, which has included these institutions among its cultural furniture.

The Barbarian Status of Women 1898

The group of agnatic kinsmen are mentioned in _Early Law and

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894