Index of English words, starting with "ag"

(1) - Agnation (n.) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.

(1) - Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.
(2) - Agnomen (n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

(1) - Agnostic (n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.
(2) - Agnostic (a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

(1) - Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.
(2) - Agnosticism (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.