A like temper and cognation.
Sir K. Digby.
3. (Law) That tie of consanguinity which exists between persons descended from the same mother; -- used in distinction from agnation.
||Cog*na"tus (?), n. [L., a kinsman.] (Law) A person connected through cognation.
{ Cog`ni*sor" (? or ?), Cog`ni*see (?), } n. See Cognizor, Cognizee.
Cog*ni"tion (?), n. [L. cognitio, fr. cognoscere, cognitum, to become acquainted with, to know; co- + noscere, gnoscere, to get a knowledge of. See Know, v. t.] 1. The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.
I will not be myself nor have cognation
Of what I feel: I am all patience.
Shak.