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cousin-german
Pl. cousins-german, formerly cousin-germans, orig. -s -s.
[a. F. cousin germain (13th c. in Littré): see german a.1 Formerly also german cousin, like brother-german, german brother.
c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 912 He is mi germain cosyn. a1555Ridley Wks. (Parker Soc.) 23 This..standeth upon transubstantiation its german cousin.]
1. The son or daughter of (one's) uncle or aunt; (one's) first cousin; = cousin n. 2.
Now chiefly legal or technical.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 2830 Cosyn also y am Germayn to Roland. c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋402 Ye ne han bretheren ne cosyns germayns, ne noon ooþer neigh kynrede. c1450Merlin vii. 117 Thei were bothe cosin germains, and also thei hadde wedded two sustres. 1555Eden Decades 80 Shee..and the kynge of Portugale were cosyn germaynes of two systers. 1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iv. v. 434 Whether the marriage of Cousens-germans that is, of Brothers or sisters children, be lawfull. 1697C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 23 He was brought up with one of his Cosen Germans. 1711Steele Spect. No. 138 ⁋2 A Cousin-German of mine and I were at the Bear in Holbourn. 1826Southey Lett. to Butler 232 The marriage of cousin-germans..was allowed in the first ages of the church. 1839Todd Cycl. Anat. II. 473/1 The marriage of cousins-german..is reprobated as prejudicial by some.
†b. cousin german (once) removed: = ‘first cousin once removed,’ i.e. first cousin's child or (vice versâ) parent's first cousin. Obs.
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. ccxviii. 237 Seynt Edwarde and this duke Wyllyam were, by the fathers syde, cosen iarmaynes remoued. 1667Duchess of Newcastle Life of Dk. (1886) 141 The now Earl of Devonshire, his cousin-german, once removed, lent him {pstlg}1000.
2. fig. A person or thing closely related or allied to another; a near relative. Formerly approaching the character of an adj.: cf. cousin 9.
1547Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 426 So to be natural may seem to be cater-cousin, or cousin-germain with to be diabolical. 1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 28 Poetrie and Piping are Cosen germans. 1638Chillingw. Relig. Prot. i. ii. §67. 77 Extreamly improbable and even cosen-german to Impossible. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. ii. §49 Our Cousin-germans of Oxford will scarce give Credit hereunto. 1711Addison Spect. No. 13 ⁋1 The Lion was a Cousin-German of the Tyger who made his Appearance in King William's days. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall (1849) 300, I had been apt to confound them [rooks] with their cousins-german, the crows. |