cognate
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For 40 years he has been pursuing his ideal, the last ten as president of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
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Any classes which fall immediately under the same genus are called Cognate Species, e.g. singular and common terms are cognate species of term.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
The classes under which any lower class successively falls are called Cognate Genera.
From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph
Cognate to it was another point of view which was not originally Jewish, but had probably been taken over by the Jews from Persian thought.
From Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity by Lake, Kirsopp
Cognate is , "to take care," "to guard oneself," specially of the conflict with the higher powers of life, in the viii. semet custodivit ah aliqua re, et absolute timuit coluitque Deum, pius fuit.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
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