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ˈblood-reˈlation
[see relation.]
A person related (to another) by birth or consanguinity; a kinsman. Hence blood-reˈlationship, consanguinity, kinship; also fig.
1709W. Steuart Coll. conc. Govt. Church Scotl. ii. iv. §8, Those of our Houshold and Blood-Relations, as Husband with Wife, and Father with Children or the like. 1846Grote Greece i. xx. II. 113 Cousins, and the more distant blood-relations. 1837Marryat Olla Podr. xxxiv, Blood relationship has nothing to do with it. 1878Bell tr. Gegenbauer's Comp. Anat. 5 The Blood-relationship of Organisms or Phylogeny. |