The thoroughly realistic conception of consanguinityas an identity of substance makes comprehensible the necessity of renewing it from time to time through the physical process of the sacrificial repast.
The crown for the best performer on the harp, being likewise awarded to him by the judges, he devoutly saluted it, and ordered it to be carried to the statue of Augustus.
Upon the dedication of his bath [572] and gymnasium, he furnished the senate and the equestrian order with oil.
In the eleventh year of his age, he was adopted by Claudius, and placed under the tuition of Annaeus Seneca [565], who had been made a senator.
He appointed as judges of the trial men of consular rank, chosen by lot, who sat with the praetors.
To these considerations it is to be added, that Postumus Agrippa, the grandson of Augustus by Julia, was living; and if consanguinity was to be the rule of succession, his right was indisputably preferable to that of an adopted son.
Neither consanguinity nor adoption, as formerly, but great influence in the army having now become the road to the imperial throne, no person could claim a better title to that elevation than Titus Flavius Vespasian.
Marriage with a father's relative to the remotest cousinship is forbidden, but consanguinity through the mother they do not notice at all.
The varieties of the consanguinity taboo are very numerous.
We find a taboo on the union of persons related by consanguinity or affinity.
The taboos in the mores contain prescriptions as to the allowable consanguinity of spouses.
Reckoning consanguinity wholly in the maternal line, as they do, they belong in the initial stage of savagery.
Morgan finds evidence that the American aborigines had a common origin in what he calls “their systems of consanguinityand affinity.
That the same system of consanguinity and affinity, with precisely the same features of identity, ever was extended over the whole continent, remains unproved.
By the ancient laws of England, relations in the same degree, whether byconsanguinity or affinity, were placed exactly on a footing.
The civil, the canon, and the English laws, differ az to the degrees ofconsanguinity necessary to render this connection improper.
Even a very remote degree of consanguinity is an insuperable barrier to the marriage union.
The designations by which the Omawhaws distinguish their various degrees of consanguinity are somewhat different in meaning from ours.
And it is still more incorrect[539] to represent physiological consanguinity and legal power over the child as two mutually exclusive sets of facts beyond which there can be no determination of parental kinship.
It may be said, therefore, that consanguinity is not always considered as the essence of kinship.
In Chapter IV of the first volume he gives numerous examples of peoples among whom there is no tie of consanguinity between father and son.
But still the author seems to be entangled in his alternative betweenconsanguinity and potestas.
We see here that curiously enough strong paternal consanguinity coincides with weakening of the patria potestas (provided the information be accurate on both points).
Mr. Sidney Hartland rightly sees that kinship is not necessarily identical with consanguinity in our sense.
In societies in which the idea of consanguinity (in the social sense) does not exist, such a connection between feelings of paternal love and knowledge of a physiological procreation would be impossible.
Ideas of consanguinity are absent in these tribes,[961] and herewith the sexual relations between husband and wife lose their chief influence upon the unity of the family.
Paternal kinship, therefore, will much more frequently differ from what we called consanguinity than maternal kinship.
This definition, illustrated as it is by many examples, is one more instance showing that the idea underlying kinship may be different from the idea of consanguinity in our sense, i.
Our discussion of consanguinity shows how great a mistake it was on the part of Morgan to impute to the primitive mind a whole series of ideas which absolutely and necessarily must have been foreign to it.
A discussion of the concept of consanguinity has shown that the variations go so far as to affect the main question of paternal kinship: "Who is the father (in the social sense) of a child, and how is he determined?
I hope to show in a future work that consanguinity by itself counts for nothing, but acts solely from related organisms generally having a similar constitution, and having been exposed in most cases to similar conditions.
The idea of consanguinity and rape could not have anything to do with it, since these conceptions were developed much later.
This consanguinity formed the true fundament of the league.
The collected data and the conclusions of Morgan were published in his "Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity," 1871, and discussion transferred to a far more extensive field.
The degree of consanguinity between this man and woman is first, second or third, according as one, two or three generations separate them (i.
Consanguinity is multiplied when two parties are descended from several common stocks.
Affinity is multiplied by multiplication of the consanguinity on which it is based (e.
In other degrees consanguinity is an impediment of church law only, and may be dispensed for a good reason, but a more serious reason is necessary for nearer relationship.
This recalls to my mind the law given to Israel, recorded in Deuteronomy, where the Lord commanded the law of consanguinity to be broken.
The case of consanguinity has nothing to do with polygamy.
From verse 6 to verse 17, inclusive, the law of consanguinity is laid down, and the blood relationship defined.
Agde laid it down that any consanguinity or affinity whatever constituted an impediment.
The act of 1835 enacted that "all marriages which shall hereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity shall be absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes whatsoever.
The restrictions as to age, relationship by consanguinity and affinity, previous marriage, &c.
Thus dispensations may be granted for marriage between persons related by consanguinity in any beyond the 2nd degree and not in the direct line of ascent or descent; e.
And those who are related by consanguinity shall be deemed the nearest of kin to each other preferably to strangers according to the book of GOD; GOD knoweth all things.
They regard not in a believer either consanguinity or faith; and these are the transgressors.
It is he who hath created man of water,p and hath made him to bear the double relation of consanguinity and affinity; for thy LORD is powerful.
How can they be admitted into a league with you, since, if they prevail against you, they will not regard in you either consanguinity or faith?
Morgan, Systems of Consanguinityand Affinity of Human Family, "Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge," vol.
One of the most remarkable laws in force amongst the wandering Arabs, and one probably of the highest antiquity, is the law of blood, called the Thar, prescribing the degrees of consanguinity within which it is lawful to revenge a homicide.
Cupidity and its concomitant vices governed all their acts, and the bonds of consanguinity and affection were too weak to restrain their fostered barbarism.
The foundling also felt no filial yearnings, and, both becoming convinced that no consanguinity existed, the orphan returned to her Indian friends.
The Hawaiian system of consanguinity corresponded, accordingly, with a stage of development that was lower than the family-form still actually in existence.
This family-form corresponds with the system of consanguinity that still existed in Hawaii during the first part of the 19th Century, in name only, but no longer in fact.
But theconsanguinity in blood to the Stuarts produced another, and a far more serious result.
Is the tie ofconsanguinity strong, and what characteristic facts can be stated of it?
Systems of Consanguinityand Affinity of the Human Family," p.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "consanguinity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
