Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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Quotation dates: 1710-1722
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CONSANGUINEAN, adj. Sc. law: “descended from the same father, but not from the same mother” (Sc. 1890 Bell Dict. Law Scot. 497).Sc. 1710 Fountainhall Decisions (1761) II. 573:
Mornipaw being come of a sister-german was preferable to the descendants of a consanguinean sister.Sc. 1722 FountainhallDecisions (1759) I. 6:
A man . . . dies, leaving behind him a consanguinean brother elder than himself, and a brother-german, younger than himself.
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