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ancestryn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French ancestrie. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman ancestrie, auncestrie, aunceterie (in law) ancestral descent, lineage (a1309 or earlier) < ancestre , auncester ancestor n. + -ie -y suffix3. Compare -ry suffix and -ery suffix.Compare Anglo-Norman auncesserie , Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French ancesserie , Old French ancessorie , etc., hereditary right, lineage (c1170), time of the ancestors, antiquity (late 12th cent. in d'ancesserie for a long time, since antiquity), forefathers or ancestors collectively (late 13th cent. or earlier) < ancessor (see ancestor n.) + -ie -y suffix3. With the form ancest'ry at α. forms compare ancestory n. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] society > society and the community > social class > nobility > [noun] > noble lineage society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > [noun] > condition determined by > noble birth or lineage ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 14 (MED) What þorgh lowe of lond, & olde auncestrie, Wan he þe regne of Westsex. 1466 in (1907) 22 603 (MED) The frenshemen myght wele see that the were verely his Armys of olde Auncestrie. a1513 H. Bradshaw (1521) i. iii. sig. a.viv Blessed Saynt Werburge..Descended by auncetry, and tytle famous. c1540 (?a1400) (2002) f. 98 Þe proud kyng was full pure ryche Of aunsetre olde. 1599 H. Buttes sig. B8 For Malum (an apple) deriveth his line of Ancestry from the Greeke Melon, of great antiquity. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. iv. 137 Now, by the honor of my Ancestry . View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil 540 A Son, whose Death disgrac'd his Ancestry. 1713 J. Addison in 1 Aug. Title and Ancestry render a good Man more Illustrious. 1795 S. Jackson I. 370 He renounced the name of Frenchman, he said, and gloried that he was of Irish ancestry. 1836 H. Smith I. 28 They who on length of ancestry enlarge. 1868 R. E. Wallis tr. Cyprian I. Epist. xxi. 97 Just as the dignity of their offspring brightens their crown, so the sublimity of his ancestry illuminates his glory. 1896 Nov. 681 In the near future every man who has struggled to the top will make of himself a gentleman of ancestry, if not a descendant of great nobles. 1913 H. White xxv. 381 There are occasions and crowds where personal oddity and a flash of genius..are more potent than high ancestry or approved statesmanship. 1959 23 Jan. 44/1 His Jewish ancestry has its roots in Poland and Slovakia. 2002 J. Weyland xiv. 211 Locals were anyone who claimed some degree of Hawaiian ancestry. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] > collectively ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 81 William..Þe toun wan of Terwenne, the castelle of Malbis, His auncestrie whilom when left it þorgh folis. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine f. ccccxxiijv/1 Thys place is belongyng to me by myn owne herytage comyng fro myn auncestrye. ?1518 A. Barclay sig. Cv Theyr patrymony Whiche was to them lette, by theyr olde auncestry. 1599 T. Nashe 62 The hobnaylde houses of their carterly ancestrie. c1625 R. James in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith (1879) 164 You are descended of Noble Auncestrie. 1691 J. Dunton III. 368 Some of their Ancestry have smelt ranck of Astrology. 1716 J. Addison No. 51. 297 A tenacious Adherence to the Rights and Liberties transmitted from a wise and virtuous Ancestry. 1780 W. Cowper 372 Our ancestry, a gallant Christian race. 1825 J. Neal III. 419 A powerful nation, whose large ancestry had peopled..all that part of the earth. 1899 Sept. 518/2 What's the matter with my ancestry? Are they all in hades? 1922 Dec. 100/1 Rose of Mississippi was just as sure that her ancestry came over in the Mayflower. 2002 (Buffalo County Hist. Soc.) 151/1 Rudy's ancestry were all Swiss. the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > line of descent 1837 (Royal Soc.) 127 365 A young Terrier..and a young Springing Spaniel, whose ancestry through many generations had been employed in finding Woodcocks, were reared together as companions. 1839 W. Herbert Let. 5 Apr. in C. Darwin (1986) II. 183 I should think a plain seedling from a hose in hose primrose more likely to produce a hose in hose seedling, than a primrose, which had no such ancestry. 1879 Nov. 150/1 Darwin traces man's ancestry through the apes, lemurs, etc., to some fishlike animal. a1933 J. A. Thomson (1934) I. xix. 497 In the embryo there are always gill-clefts.., but these are vestiges of the reptile's distant aquatic ancestry. 1993 Feb. 6/1 Floppy ears in dogs are, of course, not normal, but an aberration, the product of one or more mutations which occurred in the ancestry of certain of our present breeds. 2011 R. Fortey v. 145 You and I are bilaterians, and we share ultimate common ancestry with brachiopods, horseshoe crabs, velvet worms, and slugs, who are also bilaterians. the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] 1880 T. Armitage 16 With the institution of preaching, we must determine its real nature and value by tracing out its ancestry. 1933 L. Bloomfield xviii. 311 The comparative method thus shows us the ancestry of languages in the form of a family tree. 1976 19 Nov. 25/2 Rock has jazz in its ancestry. 2018 (Electronic ed.) 21 Apr. 10 The bookplate also has an interesting ancestry, originating in the Renaissance love of emblems. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.?a1400 |
