Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor.
Participation of the same nature. Sir T. Browne. A like temper and cognation. Sir K. Digby.
That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
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