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 two parties are subdivided into fifty-six existing consanguineal families or clans, and the names of some other's now extinct are remembered.

From The Whale House of the Chilkat by Emmons, George T.

Each gens is a body of consanguineal kindred in the female line, and each gens is allied to other gentes by consanguineal kinship through the male line, and by affinity through marriage.

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

From about 1855 to 1880 much was written about the effect of consanguineal interbreeding.

From Consanguineous Marriages in the American Population by Arner, George B. Louis