a. (sb.) [a. F. consanguin, -ine, ad. L. consanguineus: see below.] = CONSANGUINEOUS. Consanguine Family: a name for a supposed early form of family constitution: see quots. 1877–79.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, II. v. (1660), 64. My brother and I are consanguine in the first degree.
1613. Heywood, Brazen Age, II. Wks. 1874, III. 199. Pitty away, hence thou consanguine loue.
1876. J. Ellis, Cæsar in Egypt, 48. Consanguine with the Macedonian hero.
1877. L. H. Morgan, Anc. Society, 384. The Consanguine Family … was founded upon the intermarriage of brothers and sisters, own and collateral, in a group.
1879. A. Lang, in Encycl. Brit., IX. 23/1. Mr. Morgan makes the systems of nomenclature proofs of the existence of the Consanguine and Punaluan families…. Looking at facts we find the consanguine family nowhere.
1883. Pall Mall G., 11 July, 4/2. There is no social ban whatever upon any consanguine marriage … not prohibited by the Code.
b. as sb. A blood-relation.
1702. C. Mather, Magn. Chr., V. II. (1852), 252. An husband is forbidden to marry with the consanguines of his wife.
