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 with cadmia and pyrites is a compound which the Noricians and Rhetians call zincum.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

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)

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

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