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consanguineally en · ADV

Etymology

From consanguineal + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) In a consanguineal fashion; by blood relationship.
    • These six priests are designated in Zuñi ecclesiastical language “Priests of the Light or Day”; while resident in those special clans, which by heredity furnish the high-priesthoods (mainly the Clan of the Parrots, itself considered consanguineally descended from the gods), are numerous “Priests of the Night or Darkness,” […] 1882 June, F. H. Cushing, “The Zuñi Social, Mythic, and Religious Systems”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 21, page 187:

Synonyms

consanguineously