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Definition of Cognation
1. Noun. Line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family.
2. Noun. (anthropology) related by blood.
Category relationships: Anthropology
Generic synonyms: Family Relationship, Kinship, Relationship
Antonyms: Affinity
Derivative terms: Consanguine
Definition of Cognation
1. n. Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred.
Definition of Cognation
1. Noun. a cognate relationship ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cognation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cognation
Literary usage of Cognation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Science of Jurisprudence: A Treatise in which the Growth of Positive Law by Hannis Taylor (1908)
"The essence of cognation was not mere community of household, but community of
blood. As in the earlier system the father represented the agnatic principle, ..."
2. Roman Law in the Modern World by Charles Phineas Sherman (1922)
"Ties of kinship §463 in Roman law; cognation and agnation. Consanguinity or
relationship is the connection ... The Roman law called it cognation (cognatio). ..."
3. Textes de droit romain by Paul Frédéric Girard (1895)
"... DUS DEGRÉS DU cognation. ... du système des degrés de cognation placé on tête
de presque tous les mss. de la Notitia ..."
4. Theories and Criticisms of Sir Henry Maine by Morgan Owen Evans (1896)
"PART XIII cognation AND AGNATION COGNATIC relationship arises through common
descent from a pair of married persons. Agnatic relationship is the connection ..."
5. Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum Libri Quattuor: With Introductions by John Baron Moyle, Justinian (1883)
"OF THE DEGREES OF cognation. It is here necessary to explain the way in which
the degrees of natural relationship are reckoned. In the first place it is to ..."
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