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Cognation   Listen
noun
Cognation  n.  
1.
Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. "As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam."
2.
Participation of the same nature. "A like temper and cognation."
3.
(Law) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; used in distinction from agnation.





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"Cognation" Quotes from Famous Books



... all the names which relate to the different stages of manhood, as well as to family cognation, taken from the titles of priests, which were originally used in temples; such as Pater, Vir, Virgo, Puer, Mater, Matrona, Patronus, Frater, ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant


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