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genealogy|dʒɛniːˈælədʒɪ, dʒiː-|
Forms: 3 genialogi, geneologi, -elogi, 4 -ologi, (5 genolagye, 6 -loge, -logy, Sc. genol(l)igie), 4–6 genelogie, (5 -gy), 6 genalogey, 4–7 genealogie, (5–6 -gye), 4– genealogy.
[a. OF. gene(a)logie (F. généalogie), ad. late L. geneālogia, a. Gr. γενεᾱλογία tracing of descent, f. γενεᾱλόγος (whence L. geneālogus) genealogist, f. γενεά race, generation + -λόγος that treats of: see -logy.]
1. An account of one's descent from an ancestor or ancestors, by enumeration of the intermediate persons; a pedigree.
a1300Cursor M. 7846 Tuix abraham and king daui, Yee herken nov þe geneologi. 1382Wyclif 1 Tim. i. 4 Nethir ȝyue tent to fablis and genologies withouten endes. c1440York Myst. xxv. 242 Of Juda come owre kyng so gent..þe Genolagye beres witnesse on. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clxxiv. 170 And for the genelogy of Charlys the Conquerour..maye the clerelyer appere..I shal [etc.]. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie i. xii. (Arb.) 43 The Poets first commended them [the gods] by their genealogies or pedegrees. 1683Brit. Spec. Pref. 6 King James..whose genealogy from Cadwalladar I have here set down. a1750Middleton Reflections Wks. 1752 II. 24 The two different genealogies of our Saviour's family. 1867Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 12 The early mention of genealogies in the Welsh laws is proof of the importance attached to noble birth. 1882Cussans Her. xxi. (ed. 3) 281 A copious record..is commonly called a Genealogy; but when the names only are inserted..it is usually styled a Pedigree. Both words, however, are frequently used in the same signification.
fig.1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 486 Hee doth..shew vs the genealogie, that is, the beginning and proceeding of sinne. 1793Beddoes Math. Evid. 170 They have reversed the progress of language, both in the formation of words and the genealogy of significations.
b. Biol. The line of development of an animal or plant from older forms.
1880Haughton Phys. Geog. vi. 284 The true Horse appears in the Upper Pliocene, and completes the genealogy of the horse.
†2. Lineage, pedigree, family stock. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 5602 A man was of his genelogi Fro him bot to þe toþer kne. c1440York Myst. xxx. 29 Was nevir juge in þis Jurie of so jocounde generacion Nor of so joifull genolgie to gentrys enjoyned. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 29 Me thynkyth it best for me Ageyn to returne in to Italye..For ther is the issu of my genealogy. a1533Ld. Berners Huon xiv. 38 With Amaury was is next frendes, all issuyd of y⊇ genalogey of Gannelon. 1549Compl. Scot. Ep. 2 Illustir princes, engendrit of magnanime genoligie, & discendit of Royal progenituris.
†3. Progeny, offspring. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis v. xii. 131 Thair sall thow lern all thi genealogy, And what cetie is to the destany. 1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) II. 187 (Supper), Five or six sons and sons-in-law and their several wives, and a joyous genealogy out of them.
4. The investigation of family pedigrees, viewed as a department of study or knowledge.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 466 Genealogy and chronology can scarcely be called sciences.
Hence † geneˈalogied pa. pple., traced back in line of descent. rare—1.
1611H. Broughton Require Agreem. Ep. Ded. 9 Iesus, Mary, Ely are Luc. 3. genealogied, not Ioseph. |