noun. Relationship by descent from the same pair, including both the male and the female lines. See agnation.

noun. Affinity by kindred origin.

noun. Affinity of any kind; resemblance in nature or character.

noun. Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.

noun. Participation of the same nature.

noun. That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.

noun. a cognate relationship

noun. (anthropology) related by blood

noun. line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family

"It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him."

agnation  

family relationship  kinship  relationship  unilateral descent  

acrophobia  aristiri  consanguinity  downcome  filicide  

kindred