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Definition of Consanguine

1. Adjective. Related by blood.

Definition of Consanguine

1. Adjective. Related by birth or "by blood," i.e. having close ancestors in common. ¹

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Definition of Consanguine

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consanguine

Literary usage of Consanguine

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ethical Import of Darwinism by Jacob Gould Schurman (1887)
"makes the children of my several brothers and sisters my sons and daughters: the reason lies in the consanguine family, in which all -my sisters and my ..."

2. Ancient Society: Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery by Lewis Henry Morgan (1907)
"The existence of the Consanguine family must be proved by other evidence than the production of the family itself. As the first and most ancient form of the ..."

3. A handbook of hygiene and sanitary science by George Wilson (1877)
"The following statistics will, however, illustrate more fully the sad heritage to which the offspring of consanguine marriages are doomed:—Amongst the ..."

4. A Manual of the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance and Contract, Comprising the by Standish Grove Grady, William Hay Macnaghten (1869)
"In the case of Consanguine or Half-Sisters by the same Father, ... and a sister by the same father only (consanguine): the property will devolve on her ..."

5. A Law Dictionary Containing Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American by Henry Campbell Black (1910)
"... are called "consanguine" brothers. If they have the same mother, but are begotten by different fathers, they are called "uterine" brothers. ..."

6. The Institutes of Gaius and Rules of Ulpian: The Former from Studemund's by Gaius, Wilhelm Studemund, James Muirhead (1880)
"... (coniungitur: (itaque eodem) patre nati fratres agnati (sibi sunt, qui etiam (consanguine^) uocantur, nee requiritur an etiam matrem eandem habuerint; ..."

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