Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cognation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cognation \Cog*na"tion\, n. [L. cognatio.]
1. Relationship by blood; descent from the same original;
kindred.
As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam.
--Jer. Taylor.
2. Participation of the same nature. --Sir T. Browne.
A like temper and cognation. --Sir K.
Digby.
3. (Law) That tie of consanguinity which exists between
persons descended from the same mother; -- used in
distinction from {agnation}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cognation
n 1: line of descent traced through the maternal side of the
family [syn: {matrilineage}, {enation}]
2: related by blood [syn: {consanguinity}, {blood kinship}]
[ant: {affinity}]
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