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cosinage

/ˈkʌzɪnɪd͡ʒ/

cosinage noun: collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

Noun

cosinage (countable and uncountable, plural cosinages)

  1. Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
  2. (historical, obsolete) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation.
    • if the abatement happened upon the death of any collateral relation , other than those before-mentioned , the writ is called a writ of cosinage1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

Forms of cosinage

pluralcosinages

Origin of cosinage

A variant of cousinage.

Questions about cosinage

What does cosinage mean?
Cosinage means collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.
What part of speech is cosinage?
Cosinage is a noun.
How do you pronounce cosinage?
Cosinage is pronounced /ˈkʌzɪnɪd͡ʒ/.
What is the plural of cosinage?
The plural of cosinage is cosinages.

Words near cosinage in the dictionary

  1. cosimplex
  2. cosimplicial
  3. cosimulation
  4. cosimulations
  5. Cosin
  6. cosinage
  7. cosinages
  8. cosine
  9. cosine curve
  10. cosine curves
  11. cosine formula

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