bring in head and shoulders, drag in head and shoulders, lug in head
and shoulders.
Adj. irrelative[obs3], irrespective, unrelated; arbitrary;
independent, unallied; unconnected, disconnected; adrift, isolated, insular; extraneous, strange, alien, foreign, outlandish, exotic.
not comparable, incommensurable, heterogeneous; unconformable &c. 83.
irrelevant, inapplicable; not pertinent, not to the, purpose; impertinent, inapposite, beside the mark, a propos de bottes[Fr]; aside from the purpose,, away from the purpose,, foreign to the purpose, beside the purpose, beside the question, beside the transaction, beside the point; misplaced &c. (intrusive) 24; traveling out of the record.
remote, far-fetched, out of the way, forced, neither here nor there,
quite another thing; detached, segregate; disquiparant[obs3].
multifarious; discordant &c. 24.
incidental, parenthetical, obiter dicta, episodic.
Adv. parenthetically &c. adj.; by the way, by the by; en passant[Fr],
incidentally; irrespectively &c. adj.; without reference to, without regard to; in the abstract &c. 87; a se.
#11. [Relations of kindred.]
Consanguinity. — N. consanguinity,
relationship, kindred, blood; parentage &c. (paternity)
166; filiation[obs3], affiliation; lineage, agnation[obs3],
connection, alliance; family connection, family tie;
ties of blood; nepotism.
kinsman, kinfolk; kith
and kin; relation, relative; connection;
sibling, sib; next of kin; uncle, aunt, nephew, niece;
cousin, cousin-german[obs3]; first cousin, second
cousin; cousin once removed, cousin twice &c. removed;
near relation, distant relation; brother, sister,
one’s own flesh and blood.
family, fraternity;
brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood[obs3].
race, stock, generation; sept &c. 166; stirps, side;
strain; breed, clan, tribe, nation.
V. be related to &c.
adj. claim relationship with &c. n. with.
Adj. related, akin,
consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied,
collateral; cognate, agnate, connate; kindred; affiliated;
fraternal.
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intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied; german.
#12. [Double or reciprocal
relation.] Correlation. — N.
reciprocalness &c. adj[obs3].; reciprocity, reciprocation;
mutuality, correlation, interdependence, interrelation,
connection, link, association; interchange &c. 148;
exchange, barter.
reciprocator, reprocitist.
V. reciprocate, alternate;
interchange &c. 148; exchange;
counterchange[obs3].
Adj. reciprocal, mutual,
commutual[obs3], correlative, reciprocative,
interrelated, closely related; alternate; interchangeable;
interdependent; international; complemental, complementary.
Adv. mutually, mutatis
mutandis[Lat]; vice versa; each other, one
another; by turns &c. 148; reciprocally &c. adj.
Phr. “happy in
our mutual help” [Milton].