- a variation of consanguineous.
consanguine
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At the very least, he is the Ziegfeld of the U.S. branch of Tibetan Buddhism and its consanguine, quixotic movement to liberate Lhasa from Beijing's rule.
From Time Magazine Archive
But more commonly the two existed together, intimate, clinging, consanguine and inseparable.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
If the opponents of Morgan dispute that the so-called consanguine family is based on blood kinship, they are right, unless we wish to assign an exceptional position to the Australian strata of generations.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
In this or a similar manner that form which Morgan styles the Punaluan family developed from the consanguine family.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
In this stage, the generic classification in strata of different ages belonging to the so-called consanguine family runs parallel for a while with the gentile order....
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engels, Friedrich
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