consanguineal
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With such impassioned oratory, James Douglas Johnson, 41�neither a consanguineal nor a philosophical relation of the President�last week handily captured the Democratic nomination for Governor of Arkansas.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gens is an organized body of consanguineal kindred in the female line.
From Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology by Powell, John Wesley
There is no variation of the social monotony, and the result is socially the same as close consanguineal interbreeding.
From Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population by Arner, George B. Louis
Each one of the Blackfoot tribes is subdivided into gentes, a gens being a body of consanguineal kindred in the male line.
From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by Grinnell, George Bird
Marriage between members of the same gens is forbidden, but consanguineal marriages between persons of different gentes are permitted.
From Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology by Powell, John Wesley
