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

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

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

Each gens is a body of consanguineal kindred in the female line, and each gens is allied to other gentes by consanguineal kinship through the male line, and by affinity through marriage.

From Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology by Powell, John Wesley

Then he said coolly, 'Mademoiselle, you are the victim of consanguineal sorcery.'

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene