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Webster 1913 Edition
Cognation
Cog-na′tion
,Noun.
[L.
cognatio
.] 1.
Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
As by our
cognation
to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor.
2.
Participation of the same nature.
Sir T. Browne.
A like temper and
cognation
. Sir K. Digby.
3.
(Law)
That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; – used in distinction from
agnation
. Webster 1828 Edition
Cognation
COGNATION
, n.1.
In the civil law, kindred or natural relation between males and females, both descended from the same father; as agnation is the relation between males only descended from the same stock.2.
Kindred; relation by descent from the same original.Pride and hardheartedness are of near cognation to ingratitude.
3.
Relation; participation of the same nature.