cognate

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For 40 years he has been pursuing his ideal, the last ten as president of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cognate words in English are smother and small, which come from the same root. gingerly.

From Stories from Tagore by Tagore, Rabindranath

Cognate is , "to take care," "to guard oneself," specially of the conflict with the higher powers of life, in the viii. semet custodivit ah aliqua re, et absolute timuit coluitque Deum, pius fuit.

From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm

Cognate with railways is the practical working of the Electric Telegraph, now so necessary to their being. 

From Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign by Ashton, John

Any classes which fall immediately under the same genus are called Cognate Species, e.g. singular and common terms are cognate species of term.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph