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

From about 1855 to 1880 much was written about the effect of consanguineal interbreeding.

From Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population by Arner, George B. Louis

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

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

As to the blessed eucharist, he says, by it we are made concorporeal and consanguineal with Christ by his body and blood being distributed through our bodies.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban