Annate vs Agnate - What's the difference?
annate | agnate |
The first year's profits of a Catholic benefice, as traditionally paid directly to the Pope.
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 342:
A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.
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Any paternal male relative.
Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.
allied; akin
* Landor
(label) Having a similar semantic meaning.
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As nouns the difference between annate and agnate
is that annate is the first year's profits of a catholic benefice, as traditionally paid directly to the pope while agnate is a relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family.As an adjective agnate is
related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family.annate
English
Noun
(en noun)- When he brings into the Commons a bill to suspend the payment of annates to Rome, he suggests a division of the House.
agnate
English
Noun
(en noun)- A great grandfather is an agnate if he is your father’s father’s father.
Antonyms
* enateAdjective
(en adjective)- Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former.
