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congenerous, a.|kənˈdʒɛnərəs|
[f. L. congener (see congener) + -ous.]
1. Of the same kind (as another), akin in nature or character. Const. with, also to († unto).
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 162 Unto its conservation there is required..a food congenerous unto the principles of its nature. 1671Grew Anat. Pl. i. i. §30 Some moisture, partly dissimilar, and partly congenerous. 1733Arbuthnot Ess. Air (J.), Apoplexies, and other congenerous diseases. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 209 Another historian, of congenerous taste and learning. 1875Sears Serm. & Songs 251 She will demand nothing..which is not congenerous with her nature. 1885R. L. Stevenson in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 557 You..find it pass into congenerous sounds, one liquid or labial melting away into another.
b. Of the same genus or (more loosely) family; congeneric.
1768Pennant Zool. I. 61 In this place [s.v. Fox] we should introduce the wolf, a congenerous animal. 1769G. White Selborne xxvi. (1789) 73 Fieldfares, which are so congenerous to thrushes and blackbirds. 1832Lyell Princ. Geol. II. 114 [In] Europe, Asia, and Africa [are]..bees congenerous with our common hive-bee; while in America, this genus is nowhere indigenous. 1842Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. 28 Analogous structures in congenerous species.
c. Of peoples: Allied in race or origin.
1790Pennant Lond. (1813) 3 Willing to receive any instructions offered by a congenerous people. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. iii. x. 458 He conjectured, that the Caledonians, and Germans, must have been congenerous people. 1814Jamieson Hermes Scyth. 44 The Carians were accounted congenerous with the Mysi.
†2. Homogeneous. Obs. rare—1.
1683Salmon Doron Med. ii. 392 United in one similar, or simple and congenerous substance or body.
†3. Cognate in character; congenial. Obs.
1677Howe Wks. 1724 II. 531 God doth..so far excite and actuate those Powers, as that they are apt and habile for any congenerous action to which they have a natural Designation. 1687J. Reynolds Death's Vis. v, That Shou'd..move Tow'rds th'Unconfin'd, Congenerous Realms above.
4. Innate, congenital. rare—1.
1813W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXII. 425 She ought to have considered Gothic architecture, like romantic poetry and the Christian religion, as native or congenerous tastes of the modern European.
5. Phys. congenerous muscles: muscles which concur in the same action.
1721in Bailey. 1830R. Knox Béclard's Anat. 302 By the law of the association of congenerous muscles.
Hence conˈgenerousness, the quality of being of the same nature, affinity of nature, kinship.
1677H. Hallywell Meth. Saving Souls 84 Perswasive arguments, whose force and strength must lye in their congenerousness and suitableness with the ancient Idea's and Inscriptions of truth upon our souls. |