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Definition of Enatic
1. Adjective. Related on the mother's side. "My maternal grandmother"
Definition of Enatic
1. Adjective. enate (related through female line). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enatic
1. enate [adj] - See also: enate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enatic
Literary usage of Enatic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Primitive and Ancient Legal Institutions by Albert Kocourek, John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"Whenever enatic or agnatic kinship is recognized, the tribe becomes much ...
In one case the clan is enatic, and in the other it is agnatic. ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... based respectively on enatic kinship (reckoning descent exclusively through
females), and agnatic (reckoning only through males). ..."
3. The Great Ice Age: And Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1874)
"... the erratic blocks which they would then have left behind would now be
indistinguishable from the denuded remains of the older enatic ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1889)
"... Height above the sea, Lithological Characters, Size, and Origin of the enatic
Blocks of England, Wales, and Ireland, reporting other matters of interest ..."
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