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ancientry arch.|ˈeɪnʃəntrɪ|
Also 6 aunchent-, 7–8 antient-.
[f. ancient + -ry. Cf. pageantry.]
1. The quality or estate of being ancient or very old; ancientness, antiquity; old-fashioned style; seniority, priority.
1580North Plutarch (1676) 92 The Nobility and ancientry of their Houses. 1599Shakes. Much Ado ii. i. 80 The wedding manerly modest, as a measure full of state and aunchentry. 1661S. Morgan Sph. Gentry iv. iii. 52 A Baron must go after the ancientry of his Creation. 1742West Let. in Gray's Poems (1775) 144 They contain not one word of antientry. 1789H. Walpole in Miss Berry's Corr. I. 175, I allow my ancientry and that I am an old fond, jealous and peevish husband. 1866J. Ingelow Poems 26 It could not fail to find Much proof of ancientry. 1877Dixon Diana I. iv. i. 257 An air of stateliness, reserve, and ancientry. 1913Kipling Songs from Books 21 Witness hereby the ancientry Of Oak and Ash and Thorn! a1954F. B. Young Wistanslow (1956) i. 7 Not merely venerable to me in its ancientry but also impressive as a work of art.
†2. Ancient lineage or descent; ancestry, origin.
1596Spenser State Irel. 32 The Irish thinke to enoble themselves by wresting their Auncientry from the Spaniard.
†3. collect. Ancients, elder people, elders. Obs. rare.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Paraphr. Rev. xvii. 4 The florishing and bewtiful rayment wherwith they and theyr auncientries haue garnished and annowrned this whore. 1589R. Harvey Plaine Perc. 7 To be infourmed..by the Auncientry of the Parish. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. iii. 63 Wronging the Auncientry, stealing, fighting.
4. The ancient or olden time; antiquity.
1755Croker Ariosto's Orl. Fur. xiv. lxxxi, Once they were there; but 'twas in antientry. 1839Blackw. Mag. XLV. 271, I love those tales of ancientry. 1855Bailey Mystic 63 Ere all, in ancientry æterne, was God.
5. pl. or collect. Ancient things or relics, antiquities. rare.
1866E. Waugh Eawr Folk in Lanc. Lyrics 201 There connot be Another pate like his, It's o crom-full o' ancientry, An' Roman haw-pennies! 1904H. James Golden Bowl I. i. vi. 111 Small florid ancientries, ornaments, pendants, lockets. |