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Cognation   Listen
noun
Cognation  n.  
1.
Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. "As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam."
2.
Participation of the same nature. "A like temper and cognation."
3.
(Law) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; used in distinction from agnation.





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Words linked to "Cognation" :   matrilineage, enation, anthropology, consanguinity, unilateral descent


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