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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. OF.

ancesserie

. See

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent.

Title and

ancestry

render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Addison.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.

Noun.

A series of ancestors, or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent. Hence, birth or honorable descent.