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akin, adv. and a., orig. phr.|əˈkɪn|
Also aphetic kin.
[contr. from of kin, which is also found: see a prep.2 = of, and kin.]
A. adv. (The phrase of kin added to adjectives.)
1. Of kin, by way of family or blood relationship.
1558N. Grimalde Tully's Offices i. 21 They be injurious to their next akinne. 1699Pepys in Diary VI. 217 To forfeit their whole inheritance to the next a-kin. 1859Owen Lect. on Mamm. App. B. 80 He might think that the orangs were nearer akin to man than the chimpanzees.
2. Of things: Of nature or character; in character. near a kin: near in nature or character.
1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Eclogs v. xiii, To Love, Fear's neare akinne. 1713Guardian No. 170 (1756) II. 348 The manufacture of paper is very near a-kin to that of linen. 1878R. W. Dale Lect. Preach. iii. 63 Desultoriness and indolence are very near akin.
B. adj. (Only as predicate or complement.)
1. Of the same kin or family; related by blood.
1586T. B. La Primaudaye's Fr. Acad. 2 These fower gentlemen being of kin, and neere neighbors. 1673Cave Prim. Chr. iii. ii. 297 We should reckon ourselves akin and obliged to love all Mankind. 1754Foote Knights 1, The gentleman says as how mother and he are akin. 1839Keightley Hist. Eng. I. 40 Dunstan was of noble birth, and even akin to the royal family.
2. Of things: Of the same kind; allied, related, in character or properties.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. iv. 113 Lawful mercy Is nothing kin to fowle redemption. 1665Glanville Sceps. Sci. Addr. 19 An Imaginary World of our own Making, that is but little a kin to the real one that God made. 1723Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 25 Divisions somewhat of akin to yours have been for some time in the University of Glasgow. 1853Maurice Proph. & Kings vi. 98 The two doctrines seem closely akin. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §22. 155 The sensation was akin to giddiness. |
