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To extend through the same space or time with another; to extend to the same degree. According to which the least body may be coextended with the greatest. Boyle. Has your English language one single word that is coextended through all these significations Bentley.

Of the same or a similar nature; of the same family; proceeding from the same stock or root; allied; kindred; as, a cognate language.

Relationship by blood; descent from the same original; kindred. As by our cognation to the body of the first Adam. Jer. Taylor.

One bearing the same name; a namesake. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country. The Philistines were worsted by the captived ark . . . : they were not able to cohabit with that holy thing. South.

One who dwells with another, or in the same place or country. No small number of the Danes became peaceable cohabitants with the Saxons in England. Sir W. Raleigh.

The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another. Feltham.

To stick together; to cleave; to be united; to hold fast, as parts of the same mass. Neither knows he . . . how the solid parts of the body are united or cohere together. Locke.

A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion.

oin balance. See Illust. of Balance. -- To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. [Colloq.]

To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne.

The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley.

Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.

One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.

One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.

Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin.

Same as Cola nut, below.

Tending toward the same conclusion or result as something else; additional; as, collateral evidence. Yet the attempt may give Collateral interest to this homely tale. Wordsworth.

e estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equaly with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

ssing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.