cousin
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cousin englanniksi
(senseid) ''Chiefly with a qualifying word'': any relation (especially a distant one) who is not a direct ancestor or descendant but part of a person's family; a kinsman or kinswoman.
(RQ:Tyndale NT)
(RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q)
(RQ:Richardson Clarissa)
(RQ:M. R. Mitford Our Village)
''Preceded by an number, as'' first'','' second'','' third'', etc.'': a person descended from a ancestor by the same number of generations as another person.
(RQ:Taylor Ductor Dubitantium) is Annul'd, or Abrogated, and Retains No Obliging Power either in Whole or in Part over any Christian Prince, Commonwealth, or Person.|para=89|page=318|passage=(..) I never knevv the marriage of ſecond Coſens forbidden, but by them vvho at the ſame time forbad the marriage of the firſt: (..) And vve find that ''Iſaac'' married his ſecond Coſen, and that vvas more for it then ever could be ſaid againſt it.
''When used without a qualifying word'': the child of a person's parent's brother (that is, an uncle) or sister (an aunt); a cousin-german, a cousin.
(ux)
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1) / VVhat ſaid our couſin vvhen you parted vvith him?
(RQ:Stanley History of Philosophy)
(quote-web)
A person of an ethnicity or nationality regarded as closely related to someone of another ethnicity or nationality.
(RQ:Irving Rocky Mountains)
(RQ:Beerbohm Seven Men)
(non-gloss definition)
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jones)|footer=Used disparagingly.
(RQ:Scott Tales of the Crusaders)
(non-gloss definition) in commissions and writs by the Crown: used in this way to address a viscount or another peer of higher rank.
(RQ:Shakespeare Richard 3 Q1)’s brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later (w).
(RQ:Shakespeare All's Well)
(RQ:Blackstone Commentaries)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Topsell Foure-footed Beastes)
(RQ:Sylvester Du Bartas)
(quote-book) has pissed off not only the Company (the CIA) but its cousin (the Mossad) in the Middle East.
(quote-journal)
(RQ:Time)
A female partner who is not a person's wife; specifically, a prostitute.
(RQ:Dekker Middleton Honest Whore) Why ſiſter do you thinke I'le cunny-catch you, vvhen you are my cozen?
(synonyms)
(RQ:Dekker Belman)
(RQ:Rabelais Gargantua) Wenchers, Leachers, Shakers, Smockers, Cousins, Cullies, Stallions and Bellibumpers; (..)
To address (someone) as "(l)".
(RQ:Dekker Middleton Honest Whore)
(quote-journal)|month=September|year=1857|volume=XV|issue=LXXXVIII|pages=441–442|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=fkJGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA442|oclc=924884025|passage=At length she seemed to relent, or changed her tactics, for she looked over his shoulder as he sketched, and Cousined him two or three times as usual.
(RQ:Newberry Odd One)
To regard (oneself or someone) as a cousin to another person.
(quote-book)|series=Miller’s Modern Acting Drama,(nb...)|seriesvolume=no. 5|location=London|publisher=John Miller,(nb...)|year=1833|section=scene i|page=2|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=3hraJKbdgVQC&pg=RA5-PA2|oclc=1070216348|passage=(smallcaps) (..) Mary, who is this young man? / (smallcaps) That's my cousin, ma'am, just stept in to lend us a helping hand in placing the things. / (..) / (smallcaps) What the devil did she say about a tall grenadier, and the pantry? Mrs. Shuffle! Mrs. Shuffle! / (smallcaps) Hush! Are you mad? Do you want to tell all the world that we're married, and get me turned away? / (smallcaps) No; but the grenadier? / (smallcaps) Came to see the cook; so to prevent all the fat being in the fire, I cousined him, and made him a relation. / (smallcaps) Yes; and remember you've cousined me too.
(quote-book)|location=Philadelphia, Pa.|publisher=William Flint,(nb...)|date=28 May 1877|year_published=1877|page=244|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=yXnaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA244|oclc=55118761|passage=The old gentleman took me into the house and introduced me to the family, where I was at once cousined by them all.
(quote-journal)|month=July|year=1885|volume=CXXXVIII|issue=DCCCXXXVII|page=135|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=rDRPAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA135|oclc=1042815524|passage=A maiden well braced in nerve and muscle, / Far from sensual ease, to be mother of lustiest Britons, / Cousined to Romans in strength and in breadth of masterful Empire.
(quote-journal)|location=Inverness, Inverness-shire|publisher=Alexander & W. Mackenzie,(nb...)|month=September|year=1885|volume=X|issue=CXIX|page=522|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=b3k5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA522|oclc=7907922|passage=O Donald, thou wert the boy, / Steel to the bone, and like thee none! / Cousined wert thou to the great Clan Chattan, / Thou, the nodding cliff's foster son.
(quote-book)
(quote-book)&93; finds Victorian symbolist practice serving to release the signifier from centuries of post-Enlightenment confusion about the proper wedding (or at least cousining) of word and thing.
(quote-journal), add a verse to your litany, and commit yourself to Providence, like a wise man and a Christian.|footer=(small)
(quote-journal); London: The Christian Million Company|month=June|year=1887|volume=I (New Series; volume VI overall)|issue=2|page=245|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=mZ48AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA245|column=1|oclc=2444700|passage=It isn't the thing for a man to be like a stranger to his own flesh and blood. I'm going cousining, Sue, down East, and I'll hunt up my relations.
(RQ:Parker Seats of the Mighty)
(quote-journal)|date=5 January 1959|volume=46|issue=1|page=78|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA78|issn=0024-3019|oclc=34142982|passage=In 1878 they were married in the Mormon Temple in St. George, 300 miles away, and he drove her back home in a hay wagon in eight days. They "cousined" (stopped with relatives) all the way.
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