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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 then with this blunder in the first part of the Annals is the blunder in the last part about that ancient right, the enlargement of the pomoerium.

From Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century by Ross, John Wilson

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

Sometimes the Cognate Accusative is not of kindred etymology, but merely of kindred meaning; as,— stadium currit, he runs a race; Olympia vincit, he wins an Olympic victory.

From New Latin Grammar by Bennett, Charles E. (Charles Edwin)