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COGNATION
consanguinity, blood kinship, cognation
(noun) (anthropology) related by blood
matrilineage, enation, cognation
(noun) line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
cognation (countable and uncountable, plural cognations)
(now mostly linguistics) A cognate relationship.
Anagrams
• contagion
Source: Wiktionary
Cog*na"tion, n. Etym: [L. cognatio.]
1. Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor.
2. Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby.
3. (Law)
Definition: That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ROOT
(noun) (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; “thematic vowels are part of the stem”
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