Word Meanings - COUSINLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like or becoming a cousin.

Related words: (words related to COUSINLY)

• 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.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• COUSINLY
  Like or becoming a cousin.
• 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
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• COUSINAGE
  Relationship; kinship. Wyclif.
• COUSINHOOD
  The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.
• COUSINSHIP
  The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood. G. Eliot.
• COUSIN-GERMAN
  A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
• MISBECOMING
  Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
• CATER-COUSIN
  A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.
• QUATER-COUSIN
  A cousin within the first four degrees of kindred.
• MISBECOME
  Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
• DISBECOME
  To misbecome. Massinger.
• COUNTRY COUSIN
  A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.