Consanguineally

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a consanguineal fashion; by blood relationship. not-comparable

    "These six priests are designated in Zuñi ecclesiastical language “Priests of the Light or Day”; while resident in those special clans, which by heredity furnish the high-priesthoods (mainly the Clan of the Parrots, itself considered consanguineally descended from the gods), are numerous “Priests of the Night or Darkness,” […]"

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"These six priests are designated in Zuñi ecclesiastical language “Priests of the Light or Day”; while resident in those special clans, which by heredity furnish the high-priesthoods (mainly the Clan of the Parrots, itself considered consanguineally descended from the gods), are numerous “Priests of the Night or Darkness,” […]"

Etymology

From consanguineal + -ly.

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