great-grandsiren.
/ˌɡreɪtˈɡran(d)sʌɪə/, U.S. /ˌɡreɪtˈɡræn(d)ˌsaɪ(ə)r/ 1. = great-grandfather n. Now archaic and historical.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > grandparent > [noun] > grandfather > great-grandfather
fore-grandsire1474
besaiel1480
great-grandfathera1513
beayellc1540
first grandsirec1540
grandsire1541
great-grandsire?1541
grandfathera1650
?1541 M. Coverdale Confutacion Standish To Rdr. sig. aivv The greate graundsire and captaine of false teachers, I meane greate Goliath of Rome and his weapen-bearer.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. v. sig. K/2 Ye great grandsire.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V i. ii. 103 Go..to your great graunsirs graue, From whom you clayme.
1636 G. Sandys Paraphr. Psalmes David xliv. 1 Wee have heard our Fathers tell The Wonders..To them by their great Grandsires told.
1772 Scots Mag. Sept. 493/1 Some pretended memoirs of the Beckford family assert, that his grand or great grand-sire was a person of some rank.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. xv. 90 My Son And thy great-grandsire.
1860 N. Hawthorne Marble Faun I. xxiv. 270 In this vast house..a great-grandsire and all his descendants might find ample verge.
1916 Amer. Federationist Aug. 657/2 Had my forebears minds impaired? Was my great-grandsire red-haired?
1968 H. B. Deutsch in H. Carter Past as Prelude 306 A career of extra-curricular libertinism which eclipsed even the exploits of his great-grandsire.
2010 J. D. Davies Mountain of Gold (2011) vi. 91 They had cannon and cavalry, and our great-grandsires had only pitchforks or their bare hands.
2. The sire of the grandsire of an animal, esp. a horse or dog.
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1692 tr. M.-C. d'Aulnoy 3rd Pt. Ingenious & Diverting Lett. x. 23 The Grandsire or great Grandsire of these Bulls bravely kill'd such and such a one.
1746 Hist. List Horse-matches Run 145 His Great Grandsire (the Byerley Turk) was Captain Byerley's Charging Horse in Ireland.
1806 Sporting Mag. Dec. 149/1 His great grandsire was Balaam's Nameless.
1832 E. Weatherby & C. Weatherby Racing Cal. for 1831 571 His great grandsire, Waxy (won and got four winners of the Derby and three of the Oaks).
1878 Farmer's Mag. Dec. 414/2 Her great grandsire was a Waterloo bull.
1919 H. D. Goodale Pract. Results Stud. Egg Production in Mass. Agric. Exper. Station Bull. No. 191. 101 (caption) The great, great grandsire..through some lines of descent, but only the great grandsire through others.
1953 Life 9 Feb. 112/2 Only one other [Doberman] has won the Westminster—Ch. Ferry von Rauhfelsen of Giralda, Storm's maternal great-grandsire.
1993 Dog World Feb. 58/2 His great-grandsire and grandsire both were BIS winners.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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