a. Obs. Also 7 -geneous. [f. L. con- together + geni-us + -OUS (cf. CONGENIAL). The spelling in -eous was prob. suggested by homogeneous, etc. Cf. It. congeneo ‘of the same kind’ (Florio).] = CONGENEROUS; homogeneous.
1630. Hales, Gold. Rem. (1688), 364. In the blood thus drop’d there remains a spirit of life congenius to that in the body.
1658. J. Robinson, Stone to Altar, 87. Congeneous unto the former, is this mistake.
1677. Hale, Contempl., II. 232. This Retribution, as it is most admirably Con-genious and Con-natural to the right constitution of the Humane Nature.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVIII. 644. For what sooner fills the vacuities of the Flesh, than a congeneous substance.
