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

The state of being cognate.

e, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Greek insep. prefix a wit…

led to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar of execution, and for other cognate purposes.

Naturally related; cognate; connected (with). [R.] the head is not more native to the heart, ... Than is the throne of Denmark to thy father. Shak.

To be slumbering in; -- followed by a cognate object; as, to sleep a dreamless sleep. Tennyson.

nasals, and particularly of the consonants b, d, g hard, v, etc., as compared with their cognates p, t, k, f, etc., which are called nonvocal, surd, or aspirate. -- n.