In the first place, they are all the Cognateswho trace their connection exclusively through males.
The origin of this word, cognates of which occur in the Germanic languages, is unknown.
This Italian word has passed into French and German, displacing the older cognates soudard and Söldner, which now have a depreciatory sense.
Accordingly, they can succeed to the possession of goods under that part of the Edict in which cognates are called by the title of mere kinship.
Agnates, as we have observed in the first book, are those cognates who trace their relationship through males, or, in other words, who are cognate through their respective fathers.
Latin Christianity, and the source of our word Pope and its cognates in the various tongues of modern Europe.
These child-rhymes and formulae from North Germany find their cognates in our own nursery-rhymes and explanatory letter-lists, which take us back to the very beginnings of alphabetic writing.
The names of blood relations tell the same story: a glance at the table of cognates will show how strong the Latin is here, how weak the English.
The husband was required by law, not merely obliged by custom, to refer alleged misconduct of his wife to the iudicium domesticum, and this was composed in part of her cognates (section 25).
Persons connected by marriage only were called adfines, as a wife with her husband's cognates and he with hers.
In fact public opinion discountenanced the marriage of cognates within the sixth (later the fourth) degree, and persons within this degree were said to have the ius osculi.
It excluded cognates from the inheritance, so that a phrator, more distant than a father's brother, would inherit in preference to the children of a sister of the decedent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cognates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
