a. [a. F. cognatique: see COGNATE, and -IC. Cf. agnatic.] Pertaining to or reckoned through cognates; see COGNATE B. 1.
1752. Carte, Hist. Eng., III. 122. A lineal cognatic succession.
1861. Maine, Anc. Law, 146. Cognatic relationship is simply the conception of kinship familiar to modern ideas.
1878. Ziemssen’s Cycl. Med., XVII. 19. The cognatic, or maternal influence.
