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Cognation
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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. That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.