cousin

Etiquette a title used by a sovereign when addressing another sovereign or a nobleman

Cousin

Victor . 1792--1867, French philosopher and educational reformer

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It seems clear, then, that in the disputed passage from Antonio and Mellida Marston, the physician's grandson, intended to flaunt his medical knowledge by referring to morphew as cousin-german to leprosy.

O, this is nought but speckling melancholy That morphews tender skin, a cousin-german To the leprosy.

Morphew, leprosy, and the date of Marston's 'Antonio and Mellida.' (terms contained in play by English dramatist John Marston)

O sir, you are lord of the ascendent, chief man with the duchess, a duke was your cousin-german removed: - say you were lineally descended from King Pepin, or he himself, what of this?

'The Duchess of Malfi' and Catherine of Valois

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