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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lev·i·rate Lev·i·rat·ic·al a.  Of, pertaining to, or in accordance with, a law of the ancient Israelites and other tribes and races, according to which a woman, whose husband died without issue, was married to the husband's brother.
    The firstborn son of a leviratical marriage was reckoned and registered as the son of the deceased brother.   --Alford.