agnate vs alien

agnate

adj
  • allied; akin 

  • Related to someone by male connections or on the paternal side of the family. 

  • Having a similar semantic meaning. 

noun
  • A relative whose relation is traced only through male members of the family. 

  • A statement having a similar meaning to another, but a different structure. 

  • Any paternal male relative. 

alien

noun
  • Any life form of extraterrestrial or extradimensional origin. 

  • A foreigner residing in a country. 

  • A person, animal, plant, or other thing which is from outside the family, group, organization, or territory under consideration. 

  • One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged. 

adj
  • Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign. 

  • Very unfamiliar, strange, or removed. 

  • Pertaining to extraterrestrial life; typical of an extraterrestrial creature. 

verb
  • To estrange; to alienate. 

  • To transfer the ownership of something. 

How often have the words agnate and alien occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )