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Concomitant :: Concomitant (n.) One who, or that which, accompanies, or is collaterally connected with another; a companion; an associate; an accompaniment..

Oblique :: Oblique (a.) Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral.

Consanguinity :: Consanguinity (n.) The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity..

Incindental :: Incindental (a.) Happening, as an occasional event, without regularity; coming without design; casual; accidental; hence, not of prime concern; subordinate; collateral; as, an incidental conversation; an incidental occurrence; incidental expenses..

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..

Sub- :: Sub- () A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-)..

Lineal :: Lineal (a.) Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant..

Cousin :: Cousin (n.) One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure..

Representation :: Representation (n.) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced..

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) In collateral relation; not lineally.

Side :: Side (a.) Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a side issue; a side view or remark..

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Descending from the same stock or ancestor, but not in the same line or branch or one from the other; -- opposed to lineal..

Collateral :: Collateral (n.) A collateral relative.

Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity.

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) Side by side; by the side.

Collateralness :: Collateralness (n.) The state of being collateral.

Collateral :: Collateral (a.) Related to, but not strictly a part of, the main thing or matter under consideration; hence, subordinate; not chief or principal; as, collateral interest; collateral issues..

Direct :: Direct (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line..

Collaterally :: Collaterally (adv.) In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly.

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