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Ancestry, n. Also: ancestrye, -tre, ancecestry, anchestry, ancistry; awncestry. [ME. auncestrie (1330), ancestrie, ancistry, etc.] Ancestral origin or lineage. 1375 Barb. i. 44.
To cheys a king … That off awncestry cummyn wer Off kingis Ib. xvii. 238.
Fiff hundreth men wicht and worthy, That armys bar of ancistry c1420 Wynt. iii. 727.
For to blasowne into were … Armys off thaire awncestry 1456 Hay I. 276/27.
Thair predicessouris, the quhilkis ar of alde tyme and of alde ancestrye c1475 Wall. vii. 893.
Off nobill blud, and als haill ancestre 1513 Doug. i. Prol. 84.
A lord of renown, Of ancistry nobill and illustir baroun Ib. vii. i. 70.
Of eldris gret and riall anchestry