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consanguineous
con·san·guin·e·ous \kon-san(g)-GWIN-ee-us\,
adj.
having the same ancestry or descent;
related by blood.
Also, con·san·guine
(kon sang'gwin),
con san·guin e·al.
[1595–1605; < L consanguineus, equiv. to con-
CON- +
sanguin- (s. of sanguis) blood + -eus -EOUS]
—consan·guine·ous·ly,
adv. (Random
House Webster's Unabridged).
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Among other preliminary
activities, the prospective groom's party formally inquires as to the
girl's clan-name; this is a ritualization of the taboo on
consanguineous marriage.——
Mark Laurent Asselin; The Lu-school reading of 'Guanju'
as preserved in an eastern Han fu; Journal of the American
Oriental Society, July 1, 1997
Though they have their origins in
consanguineous faiths, in practice the religious events could not
be further apart. The run-in to Christmas is characterised by
consumerism and hedonism; the approach to Ramadan by a more sober
celebration, the rejoicing of the spirit in the knowledge that it will
once again be able to avail itself of another month of austerity.——
Faisal Bodi, a news editor of Q-News magazine,
to Guardian;
Days of Hope and Hunger;
Face to faith;
Nov 13, 1999
Nowhere, not even in Holland, where the correspondence between the real aspects and the little polished canvases is so constant and so exquisite, do art and life seem so interfused and, as
it were, so consanguineous.——
Noted with Pleasure; New York Times, Oct 6, 1991
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