blood relationn.

1668 T. St. Serfe Tarugo's Wiles iv. iv. 33 Upon the approach of any Woman, except Blood-relations, I am suddenly struck with the highest extremities of Convulsion-fits.

1709 W. Steuart Coll. & Observ. Church Scotl. ii. iv. §8 Those of our Houshold and Blood-Relations, as Husband with Wife, and Father with Children or the like.

1760 W. Law Coll. Lett. Interesting & Important Subj. xviii. 187 If Blood-Relations..could have any true Goodness, or unselfish Regard to one another, we should not be under the Necessity of being born again from above.

1846 G. Grote Hist. Greece II. i. xx. 113 Cousins, and the more distant blood-relations.

1875 Westm. Rev. July 151/2 Even if the close interbreeding of blood relations among animals resulted in a loss of power of reproduction..it would not be right to infer too much from that fact.

1880 Ave Maria 5 June 455/1 Among the Jesuits of Russian nationality is the prince Gagarin, a blood relation to the Czar himself.

1921 R. N. Gilchrist Princ. Polit. Sci. vii. 164 In early societies the power to avenge or punish was in the hands of blood-relations.

1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm i. 3 The wild sea beet..is undoubtedly a blood relation of cultivated sugar beet.

1994 J. Campbell in J. Richetti et al. Columbia Hist. Brit. Novel 106 Joseph Andrews turns out to be the adopted child of those he had thought were his blood relations.