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consanguinity|kɒnsæŋˈgwɪnɪtɪ|
[a. F. consanguinité, ad. L. consanguinitāt-em blood-relationship, f. consanguine-us (cf. prec.) or its elements: see -ty.]
1. The condition of being of the same blood; relationship by descent from a common ancestor; blood-relationship. (Opposed to affinity, i.e. relationship by marriage.)
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 95 Whanne a man haþ weddid a womman sibbe to him in degree of consanguinyte or kyn..forboden in holy writt. c1425Wyntoun Cron. vii. vii. 197 For of consangwinyte The thryd and thyrd þai ware in gre. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. (1612) 341 Ignorant are we not..of thy Consanguinitie with the Troians. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. ii. 103, I haue forgot my Father: I know no touch of consanguinitie. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) I. xxxiii. 294 Duties of affection and consanguinity. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. (1864) VI. xi. v. 443 He inhibited the marriage as within the fourth degree of consanguinity. 1882A. Macfarlane Consanguinity 1 A notation capable of denoting any relationship of consanguinity or affinity.
b. transf. Of plants: Generic or specific affinity.
a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1684) 46 The nearer consanguinity there is between the cyons and the stock the readier comprehension is made, and the nobler fructification.
†2. collect. Blood-relations, kin. Obs. rare.
[1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. B iij b, In writing to any of your affinitie or consanguinitie.] 1705Rowe Biter ii. i, What if I did marry..the Pastry-Cook's Daughter, I didn't marry all her Scoundrel Consanguinity, I hope.
3. fig. Oneness of nature; relationship, affinity.
1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 112 The consanguinity of doctrine. 1777Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 27 Oct., Such is the consanguinity of our intellects. 1862H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xv. §124 Between the painted window, the prayer-book on which its light falls, and the adjacent monument, there is consanguinity. |