Cognatic Definition

adjective

Of or relating to a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both father and mother.

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Origin of Cognatic

Cognatic Sentence Examples

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

  • On the whole it seems not unlikely that at the beginning of the Christian era the Teutonic peoples of the continent were in a state of transition from cognatic to agnatic organization.

  • What it didn't do, however, was allow for cognatic primogeniture.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOG

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CICTIC

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Words Starting With C and Ending With C

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