单词 | germane cousin |
释义 | > as lemmasgermane cousin 1. germane cousin: a child of a full brother or sister of either parent of the person in question; a first cousin; = cousin-german n. 1 (the more usual form). †Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > cousin > [adjective] > that is a cousin germane cousinc1330 c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 912 (MED) He is mi germain cosyn. a1555 N. Ridley Treat. Transubst. (1556) 51 This kind of oblation standeth vppon transubstantyacion his germayne coosyn. 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 34 Married well vnto sir Charles of Bloys Extract from race right honorable faire, Germaine cosen to Phillip of Valoys. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 158 Hippocrates sayth that milke is German Cousen to the menstruous blood. 1797 ‘A. Pasquin’ Pin-basket to Children of Thespis 56 As high-blooded Barons treat poor german-cousins. 1799 P. Yorke Royal Tribes Wales Index 182 German-cousins excommunicated for marrying each other. 1817 A. Delano Narr. Voy. & Trav. Northern & Southern Hemispheres xviii. 347 They..threw Don Francis[c]o Masa, his german cousin, Hermenegildo, his relation, and the other wounded persons..overboard alive. 1893 ‘M. Gray’ Innocent Impostor iv. 46 ‘They were cousins,’ he observed briefly, at the end. ‘German cousins,’ corrected Cissy. ‘German cousins or cousins german, they were first cousins,’ returned Auriol. 2000 C. Adams Taste for Comfort & Status iii. 90 Marie de Sérézac signed the contract with the advice and ‘authority’ of her mother; her grandmother, Delphine Filhol..and her germane cousins. < as lemmas |
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