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grandsire|ˈgrændsaɪə(r), ˈgrænsaɪər|
Forms: see grand a. and sire; also 4 graunsire, -ser, 5 granser, grawn(e)sire, -syre, 6 graynser; Sc. 6 grant-, grandschir, 7 grandsher, -ir, 9 gran(d)sher, dial. gransir.
[a. AF. graunt sire: see grand a. 12 b and sire.]
1. = grandfather 1. arch. and dial.
c1290Beket 473 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 120 Bi þe kingus daye henries þat ovre graunt-sire was. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6353 Vor he wilnede vorto ligge is grantsire ney. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 259 Sarug was Abraham his fader graunsire. c1400Destr. Troy 2169 Synkes not in your sowle þe sorow of your graunser. 1474Caxton Chesse 53 Counceyllour of his fader his grauntsire and of his grauntsirs fader. 1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 124 Hys grauntsirs [misprinted gramitsirs] fader was an harper and meter of landes. 1501Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 151 All the estayts made by your graynser and father. 1587Mirr. Mag., Q. Cordila vi. 1 My grandsire Bladud hight. 1605Camden Rem. 212 My father was King of England..and his father my grandsire was also King of England. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece (1715) I. i. xxvi. 169 If an Heiress is contracted lawfully in full Marriage by a Father or Grand-sire. 1725Pope Odyss. xix. 566 His grandsire sent him to the sylvan chace. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles ii. xxvii, By Woden wild, (my grandsire's oath). 1863Longfellow Wayside Inn Prel. 112 The sword his grandsire bore. 1876Whitby Gloss., Gransir, grandfather.
b. The sire of a sire (of an animal, esp. a horse).
1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 184 Another chestnut [horse], but with the characteristic black spots of his grandsire.
c. † first grandsire, great grandsire = great-grandfather. (See also great a. 21 b.)
c1400Destr. Troy 13602 Aschatus..þat is my fader so fre, and þi first graunser.
2. Sc. A great-grandfather. (Cf. grandfather 2.)
1543Sc. Acts Mary (1814) II. 432/1 Or souerane ledyis feder..hir guidschir, & grantschir. 1592Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 619/1 His maiesties vmquhile darrest grandschir. 1609Skene Reg. Maj. 91 The father, gudsher, and grandsher. 1641Sc. Acts Chas. I (1870) V. 696/2 The estate..Hes beine possest be me my father gudshir and grandshir thir thriescoir and ten yeires bygane. 1806R. Jamieson's Pop. Ball. I. 292 His gransher, his gutsher, his daddie.
3. A forefather, progenitor. arch.
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 52/182 Þe kyng Alfred, is graunt⁓sire, þat hous a-rerd hadde. 1573Twyne æneid x. (1584) Q v, Thy soule vnto thy grandsiers gosts..I send. 1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner A a iij, Our Grand-sire Adam. 1693C. Dryden in J. D.'s Juvenal vii. (1697) 182 In Peace, ye Shades of our Great Grandsires rest. 1847Tennyson Princ. i. 6 Some sorcerer, whom a far-off grand⁓sire burnt Because he cast no shadow. 1896F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) LXII. 157/2 Our colonial grandsires of course stressed the first syllable in hired man.
appositive.1649Milton Eikon. xx. Wks. (1847) 321/1 So did..our grandsire papists in this realm.
4. A man of an age befitting a grandfather; an old man. arch.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. v. 50 Do good old grandsire, & withall make known Which way thou trauellest. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 10 Auld grandshers at their doors sat beikin'.
5. attrib. (quasi-adj.)
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. iv. 37 For I am prouerb'd with a Grandsier Phrase. 1637N. Whiting Albino & Bellama (1638) 85 Yet had their pleasure not a grand-sire life. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics viii. iv. (1860) II. 56 Yon grey promontory, about whose grandsire knees the waves are gambolling.
6. Bell-ringing. A particular method of ringing the changes on a ring of bells; its varieties are designated grandsire cinque, grandsire bob, grandsire triples, etc.
1671Tintinnalogia 95 Grandsire is the best and most ingenious Peal that ever was composed, to be rang on five bells. Ibid. 102 This Peal of Grandsire..is the absolute foundation from whence the excellent Peal of Grandsire bob (on six bells) had its beginning and method. 1671,1677[see bob n.5]. 1798in Gentl. Mag. (1825) XCV. i. 298 A full and compleat peal of grandsire tripples, consisting of 5040 changes. 1809in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. IV. 390 A peal of grandsire-bob-cators containing 126 changes. 1872Ellacombe Ch. Bells Devon iii. 40 The College Youths rang at..S. Bride's, London, the first peal of 5000 grandsire cinques on twelve bells. 1883B'ham Daily Post 19 Oct. 7 A peal of 10,176 changes of grandsire majors..This is the longest peal ever rung..upon hand-bells. |