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Kinred(e, -reid, n. Also: kyn- and -redd, -rayd. [e.m.E. kinred, ME. kin-, kynrede, -red, etc., cun-, kunrede, shortened f. ME. kinreden Kinrent n.]

1. Kinship, relationship. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 90.
Being prouokit be reproches, to men not knit to hir be kinred 1572 Bann. Memor. 268.
All … maist miserablie murtherit … , without respect of aige, sex, or kynreid 1610 Misc. Hist. Soc. II. 191.
[Friendship borne] to my father for kinred, allia, freindschip or nychtboorhood 1617 Crim. Trials III. 422.
Na kinreid sould be ony caus to declyne him [the judge]

2. One's kinsfolk, collectively. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Acts vii. 14.]
[His fader and al his kinrede [P. kynrede] a1585 Polwart Flyt. 674 (H).
I count such kinred better ȝit nor thyne 1614 Highland P. III. 188.
If thei hald furthe … no remeid is for thame and all thair kinred in Scotland 1629 Justiciary Cases I. 134.
Seing thair is nothing alledget to be done to hirselff or to hir kinreid bot … to ane stranger 1633 Lithgow Poet. Rem. 94.
[They] care not for … wives, nor friends, kinred nor bairnes

3. A body of kindred; a family, race or stock. b. Ancestry, familial origin. c. A generation. 1513 Doug. iv. xi. 81.
Ȝone clan, with thar successioun and kynrayd a1568 Bann. MS. 269 a/5.
The gentill kinreid of the goddis sa hie Ib. (Colk. Sow) 360 b/41.
It semis thai war of kynreid full potent 1568 Sat. P. x. 152.
Ane man, Baith of our surname, kynreid, blude, and clan 1587 Carmichael Etym. 10.
Stirps, ofspring, or stock in kinredb. a1585 Maitl. Q. xxiii. 42.
Greit kynred helpis lytill now 1585 in Calderwood IV. 452.
It is not … the dignitie of kinred or blood, that carieth with it all knowledgec. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Luke i. 50.]
[His mercy is fra kynrede into kynredes a1568 Bann. MS. 26 a/32.
His marcy … frome kin to kin and so doun to kinreid … sall ay proceid