Cognation

[Lat. cognatio.] Kindred; relation by descent from the same source. Natural affinity; participation of the same nature. (Law.) Consanguinity between persons descended from the same parents; - used in contradistinction to AGNATION, q. v. Cogno'men, n. [Lat. con, and nomen, name.] The Coherently, a. In a coherent or connected manner. last of the three names by which all Romans, at least Cohesibil'ity, n. Cohesivene ; cohesion. those of good family, were designated, e. g., Publius Cohe's ible, a . [See COHERE.) That which is able to Virgilus Maro. It served to mark the house (see cohere. FAMILIA) to which they belonged, as the other two names, viz. the prænomen (Publius), and nomen , served respectively to denote the individual and the cla (see GENS) to which his family belonged. Cognom'inal, a . [lat. con , and nominal is , from nomen.] Pertaining to a cognomen or surname. name, or family name.