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cosinage (s.xii1)
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cosinage (s.xii1)

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cousinage,  chosinage,  cusinage;  cusingnage  
  FEW:  consobrinus 2/ii,1074a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  cousinage 9,230b TL: cosinage 2,927 DEAF:  cosin (cosinage)  DMF:  cousinage  TLF:  cousinage  OED:  cousinage n.  MED:  cosinage n.  DMLBS: ∅

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1kinshipkinship, blood relationship, consanguinity: 
( s.xiii4/4; MS: 1307-15 )  le divorz fu fet […] pur cosinage ki fust entre eus  Reis Engl1 248
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiim )  A la dame fud alié Pa[r] cusingnage e parenté  S Modw 5168
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  cosinage est lien de divers parceners descendants de .j. cep e estretes de carnele engendrure  Mir Just 21
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  pur ceo procura il le devorz entre eux (=Louis VII and Eleanor) et prova cosinage  TREVET Cron1 304.29
( 1402 )  ne il ad nulle affinitee ne cosinage entre eux  Rot Parl1 iii 497
♦affinity, relationship: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  Totes vertuz unt cosinage E liement de parentage  Salemon 1805
♦close friendship: 
( c.1275; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ne estes pas defeblé (l. defublé) de tun chatel. Cosinage esteit ta reysun (=for the young man giving away all his possessions to his close friends)  S Fran ANTS 3006
( 1283 )  cher cousyn […] avoms ausint regardez la graunt amur e le cosinage qe est entre vus (=Charles of Anjou) e nous (=Edward I)  GR ii 188
2behaviour befitting a kinsman: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Ne vus durra […] Acreissement de terre […] Ainz verra si li ferrez amur e cusinage  FANT OUP 376
3kinshipkindred, kinsfolk: 
( 1280-1307; MS: s.xiv1/4 )  Chuvalers et serjauns of lur cosinage  LANGTOFT wright ii 230
4race: 
( s.xii1; MS: 1155-60 )  e aurrunt devant lui tutes les cusinages des genz (Latin: universae cognationes gentium)  Camb Ps 35.XXI.28
bref de cosinage
lawwrit of cosinage: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  le besael ou le tresael poet demaunder la seisine de plus trové en la dreite lyne par bref de cosinage  BRITT ii 163
( 1311 )  Un A. porta bref de cosinage vers l’abbé de Croyland  YBB Ed II x 6
( 1376 )  les briefs de Mort d’ancestre, Nuper obiit, cosinage, aiel, besaiel […]  Rot Parl1 ii 341
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