Word Meanings - CATER-COUSIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

Related words: (words related to CATER-COUSIN)

• COUSINRY
  A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• COUSINLY
  Like or becoming a cousin.
• RELATIONAL
  1. Having relation or kindred; related. We might be tempted to take these two nations for relational stems. Tooke. 2. Indicating or specifying some relation. Relational words, as prepositions, auxiliaries, etc. R. Morris.
• REMOTE
  Separated by intervals greater than usual. -- Re*mote"ly, adv. -- Re*mote"ness, n. (more info) 1. Removed to a distance; not near; far away; distant; -- said in respect to time or to place; as, remote ages; remote lands. Places remote enough are
• QUATERNATE
  Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four; quaternary; as, quaternate leaves.
• QUATER-COUSIN
  A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
• COUSIN
  from L. consobrinus the child of a mother's sister, cousin; con- + sobrinus a cousin by the mother's side, a form derived fr. soror 1. One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle
• QUATERON
  See QUARTERON
• RELATION
  1. The act of relating or telling; also, that which is related; recital; account; narration; narrative; as, the relation of historical events. relation doth well figure them. Bacon. 2. The state of being related or of referring; what is apprehended
• QUATERNITY
  1. The number four. Sir T. Browne. 2. The union of four in one, as of four persons; -- analogous to the theological term trinity.
• COUSINAGE
  Relationship; kinship. Wyclif.
• QUATERNION
  The quotient of two vectors, or of two directed right lines in space, considered as depending on four geometrical elements, and as expressible by an algebraic symbol of quadrinomial form. Note: The science or calculus of quaternions is
• COUSINHOOD
  The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.
• RELATIONIST
  A relative; a relation.
• COUSINSHIP
  The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood. G. Eliot.
• COUSIN-GERMAN
  A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.
• QUATERNARY
  Later than, or subsequent to, the Tertiary; Post-tertiary; as, the Quaternary age, or Age of man. (more info) containing four, fr. quaterni four each, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. 1. Consisting of four; by fours, or in sets of four.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• SQUATEROLE
  The black-bellied plover.
• POSTREMOTE
  More remote in subsequent time or order.
• PREREMOTE
  More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin.
• IRRELATION
  The quality or state of being irrelative; want of connection or relation.
• TERREMOTE
  An earthquake. Gower.
• CATER-COUSIN
  A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.
• CO-RELATION
  Corresponding relation.
• PRELATION
  The setting of one above another; preference. Jer. Taylor.
• INTERRELATION
  Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation.
• CORRELATION
  Reciprocal relation; corresponding similarity or parallelism of relation or law; capacity of being converted into, or of giving place to, one another, under certain conditions; as, the correlation of forces, or of zymotic diseases. Correlation of