consanguineal

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With such impassioned oratory, James Douglas Johnson, 41�neither a consanguineal nor a philosophical relation of the President�last week handily captured the Democratic nomination for Governor of Arkansas.

From Time Magazine Archive

Each one of the Blackfoot tribes is subdivided into gentes, a gens being a body of consanguineal kindred in the male line.

From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by Grinnell, George Bird

The gens is an organized body of consanguineal kindred in the female line.

From Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology by Powell, John Wesley

Then he said coolly, 'Mademoiselle, you are the victim of consanguineal sorcery.'

From Là-bas by Wallace, Keene

Marriage between members of the same gens is forbidden, but consanguineal marriages between persons of different gentes are permitted.

From Wyandot Government: A Short Study of Tribal Society Bureau of American Ethnology by Powell, John Wesley