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The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness. Swift.

, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott.

Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora. Dunglison.

ions, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. To share the blood of Saxon royalty. Sir W. Scott. A friend of our own blood. Waller. Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half bl…

That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.

esaid queen. Hakluyt. Many persons . . . had contracted marriage within the degrees of consanguinity . . . prohibited by law. Strype.

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill.

, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity. Abbott.

Far separated; far off; not near; remote; -- in place, time, consanguinity, or connection; as, distant times; distant relatives. The success of these distant enterprises. Prescott.

Relationship, consanguinity, or affinity; connection by birth or marriage; kindred; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin. Like her, of equal kindred to the throne. Dryden.

Connected by the ties of consanguinity. "Natural friends." J. H. Newman.

Allied by kindred; connected by blood or alliance, particularly by consanguinity; as, persons related in the first or second degree.

Connection by consanguinity or affinity; kinship; relationship; as, the relation of parents and children. Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known. Milton.

Not nearly related; not close; as, a remote connection or consanguinity.