auncetry
Middle English
Noun
auncetry
- ancestry
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Reeve's Tale: 127-9.
- His purpos was for to bistowe hire hye
- Into som worthy blood of auncetry;
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Reeve's Tale: 127-9.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for auncetry in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)