ancestry (ansestri)

[ cestrie, a unces trie, ancistry, etc., also, withouts, ancetry, auncetry, auncetrie, aunsetre, OF. an ceserie, ance erie, Headle statues of his ancestry. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iii. That senior posterity which was such for Homer, but for us has long ago become a worshipful ancestry. De Quincey , Homer, i. Hence-2. Descent from a line of honorable ancestors; high birth. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but a bad man more conspicuous. Add is on . IMG:content-0703.png:[blocks in formation]