consanguineous

• “These are called _sandugo_, which means "consanguineous," or "of the same blood.”

  The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 12 of 55 1601-1604 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century

• “When looking at incest, for instance, it is quite clear that permitting consanguineous relationships will lead to power imbalances, psychological damage, sexual abuse, and a high rate of genetic diseases.”

  The Huffington Post: Eliyahu Federman: Will Gay Marriage Lead to Polygamy, Incest, and Religious Meltdown?

• “Here and there, even of old time, the wise men recognised it; and we so recognise it to-day, as witness our bars against consanguineous marriage.”

  The Kempton-Wace Letters

• “The Ute must be the updated version of the Holden Pickup (unless the two are consanguineous simultaneous the same thing), as in this extract:”

  June 2008

• “Consequently, consanguineous unions were a significant proportion of the consecrated marriages.”

  Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

• “Genealogies describe consanguineous relations, while estate inventories name spouses and children, both minor and adult.”

  Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa

• “Her attention was directed towards the diversity in the frequencies of consanguineous matings in various communities and their possible consequences.”

  Elisabeth Goldschmidt.

• “Of the eleven marriages made by six Spanish kings over this period, all but two were consanguineous and several involved very close relatives.”

  Archive 2009-04-01

• “Whether consanguineous marriages, such as are permitted in civilised nations, and which would not be considered as close interbreeding in the case of our domesticated animals, cause any injury will never be known with certainty until a census is taken with this object in view.”

  Cue outrage in three, two, one…

• “When the principles of breeding and of inheritance are better understood, we shall not hear ignorant members of our legislature rejecting with scorn a plan for ascertaining by an easy method whether or not consanguineous marriages are injurious to man.”

  Cue outrage in three, two, one…

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