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ancestorn. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French auncester; French ancessor. Etymology: Partly (i) (in α. and β. forms) < Anglo-Norman auncester, auncestour, auncestor, auncestre, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French ancestre (French ancêtre ) forefather, forebear (12th cent.), person who precedes another in the course of inheritance (mid 13th cent. or earlier), forerunner, predecessor (mid 13th cent. or earlier; < classical Latin antecēssor antecessor n.), and partly (ii) (in γ. forms) < Anglo-Norman ancessor, ancessour, auncessore, in the same senses (compare Old French ancessor (late 11th cent. as anceisor ), Middle French ancesseur ) < an oblique form of the same classical Latin etymon. Compare Old Occitan ancessor . Compare antecessor n. and later antecestre n.The β. forms (without internal -s- ) reflect the pronunciation of Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French ancestre (French ancêtre ); the internal -s- of the α. forms initially reflects the French spelling, eventually leading to a spelling pronunciation in English. The addition of -our , -or to ancestre and related forms is peculiar to Anglo-Norman (and hence English); it may be due to influence from Anglo-Norman ancessor , ancessour (compare the γ. forms in English). In early use in sense 1 sometimes used interchangeably with grandsire n. (compare sense 2 at that entry). Compare (from the same work as quot. c1300 at sense 1a):c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 429 Bi the kyng Henries dai, that oure ancestre [c1300 Laud graunt-sire] was. 1. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > [noun] the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [noun] > ancestor c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 472 in C. Horstmann (1887) 120 Lawes þere beoth and costomes þat habbethz euere beon i-holde..ase ovre Aunceteres [c1300 Harl. 2277 ancestres] us tolde. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) ii. 166 Þe lond..þat þin ancessoure So wele kept biforn. ?c1450 tr. (1906) 4 Stories, the which[e] hathe ben wretin bi oure Aunsetters. c1535 Ld. La Warr in H. Ellis (1827) 2nd Ser. II. 134 There lyethe many of my aunsytorys. 1579 S. Gosson f. 8v The Trophees and Triumphes of our auncestours. 1614 W. Raleigh i. ii. vii. §3. 337 Hercules..the Ancester of the Macedonians Kings. 1667 J. Milton ii. 895 Eldest Night and Chaos, Ancestors of Nature. View more context for this quotation 1706 R. Estcourt ii. i The World grows extravagant and derogates..from the Parsimony of our Ancestors. 1770 E. Burke 49 We have hardly any land-marks from the wisdom of our ancestors, to guide us. 1879 T. Hardy 26 Mar. (1978) I. 64 It is possible that he & the ancestor of your relative were two different persons who were in India at the same time. 1925 B. Vanzetti Let. 18 Sept. in N. Sacco & B. Vanzetti (1997) ii. ii. 170 My ancestors were farmers, my grandfather was an agriculturer and dealer in agriculture's products. 1969 H. Horwood 171 They are the men of the south coast, whose ancestors were expelled from Placentia when the English took it from the French. 2004 Mar. 40/2 Typically, the most important piece of information to trace your ancestors is their place of birth. society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [noun] > descent by inheritance > person from whom inheritance derived c1503 R. Arnold f. lxx/2 Sauing to euery persone ther right tytel and enterest in any of the primisses other than they their auncestres or pridecessors had be forsse of your lettres patentis. 1576 W. Lambarde 399 The Eldest Sonne only shalbe rebutted, or barred, by the warrantie of the auncestour. 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell 128 We [call an heir] him, who is next of Kin to the party deceased, to whom a Fee doth of right belong, after the death of the Ancestor. 1704 J. Harris I Perquisite, is any thing gotten by a Man's own Industry, or purchased with his own Money, different from that which descends to him from his Father or Ancestors. 1767 W. Blackstone ii. xiv. 201 An heir..is he upon whom the law casts the estate immediately on the death of the ancestor. 1852 1 96 There can be no ‘heirs’ in the life of the ancestor. 1873 May 329/2 The personal title held by an ancestor is available on succession of his heir as a matter of course. 1905 14 180 The court held that an heir or donee who murdered his ancestor will not be permitted to have any benefit as such heir or donee. 1959 Earl Jowitt & C. Walsh I. 116/2 Under the law as it stood before the Law of Property Act, 1925, an ancestor meant any person from whom real property was inherited. 2006 120 403 The unsecured creditors would simply lose the value of the remaining debts, unless the heirs and devisees..desired to extend the ancestor's credit line for their own purposes. 2. the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > [noun] > one who goes first or predecessor c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) l. 649 in C. Horstmann (1887) 125 (MED) Holi churche..þat was er so heiȝ and freo bi mine Auncestres daye, Þat ich hire scholde bi-neoþe bringe, Allas! 1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze sig. ¶¶2v Such as shal resemble & proue like vnto their true ancestors, I meane the ancient Prophets & Patriarches. a1718 G. Sutton (1718) i. 22 To conclude with St. Cyprian, grant that some of our Spiritual Ancestors were so corrupted. 1842 4 330 We call to mind the struggle made two hundred years ago by men whom we are proud to call our spiritual ancestors. 1883 829 The Separatists were the true ancestors of modern Congregationalists. 1905 15 Apr. 555/1 The different tone in which he had formerly written of Montaigne, his intellectual ancestor. 1962 6 212 Thirty years ago, his ancestor in legal history would have made much of Elizabeth's reported interest in the decision. 2002 G. Rohlehr in H. Maes-Jelinek & B. Ledent 241 Wilfredo Lam is his ancestor in terms of painting. 1860 R. F. Burton II. xviii. 291 The zeze, or banjo, resembles in sound the monochord Arabian rubabah, the rude ancestor of the Spanish guitar. 1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland II. v. 182 The Anglo-Saxon teám was an ancestor of the later law of warranty in one line. 1909 2nd Ser. 29 18 I have already mentioned the epoch-making dialogue-novel, the ancestor of all modern realistic fiction, ‘Celestina’. 1934 A. L. Bacharach viii. 488 There are many who regard this work as the direct ancestor of the great piano quintets of Schumann and Brahms. 1969 51 309/2 Writing desks of this kind..were probably the ancestors of the much richer seventeenth-century cabinets. 2006 Spring 59/2 Some say the hamburger's ancestor was the raw, shredded mutton or beef eaten by Mongol warriors. the world > life > biology > biological processes > evolution > [noun] > evolutionary ancestor c1760 R. Wall 58 Hence consequently to procure these good, ought to be the first and principal care; to be likewise partial to the merits of their ancestors through as many generations as possible! 1827 E. Griffith et al. in V. 137 Buffon attributes the same origin to this [sc. the Lion Dog] as to the preceding, with the genealogical addition of an ancestor with scattered hairs. 1832 C. Lyell II. i. 2 The ancient animals whose remains have been preserved in the strata, however different, may nevertheless have been the ancestors of those now in being. 1849 T. B. Macaulay I. 315 The ancestors of the gigantic quadrupeds [i.e. dray-horses]..were brought from the marshes of Walcheren. 1921 72 392 The ancestors of the blue-green algae or of the phototrophic pigment bacteria..may have been the most primitive forms. 2015 B. Shapiro ii. 31 The common ancestor of moa and tinamou lived around 50 million years ago. the mind > language > a language > [noun] > family of languages > antecedent or parent language 1822 Feb. 25/1 The ancient Kusan, the sole and redoubted ancestor of the modern Arabic. 1879 V. 498/1 It [sc. Sanskrit] is the elder sister, in whose lineaments the likeness of the common ancestor is most easily recognisable, and its own derivatives are to be found in the dialects spoken at the present day throughout the N. of India. 1954 K. H. Jackson in N. K. Chadwick 67 By Western British I mean the ancestor of Welsh and probably of the Celtic language of Cumbria, called Cumbric here, which seems to have agreed with Welsh in the main. 1979 B. Comrie in T. Shopen iii. 124 In the course of the breakup of the Indo-European protolanguage, one of the new languages that emerged was Common Slavic, the ancestor of the modern Slavic languages. 2003 7 Nov. 17/1 Primitive Germanic, the ancestor of all Germanic languages, or Indo-European, the ancestor of scores of languages from Irish to Hindi. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > descendant > [noun] 1920 6 Oct. 259/1 Contributions to ‘topsy-turvy pronunciations [sic]’:..‘She is an ancestor of the famous Irish patriarch, Robert Emmet.’ 1962 H. S. Thompson Let. 3 Aug. in (1997) 346 Lima... I have [been]..hounded 24 hours a day by thieves, beggars, pimps, fascists, usurers, dolts and human jackdaws of every shape and description. If these are Pizzaro's [sic] ancestors you are goddamn lucky he never got to Brazil. 1996 F. Turner v. 100 As God once saved the colonist of New England, so now, Wayne implies, the ancestors of those colonists will save another helpless people. 2008 Nov. 5/2 Harper's magazine estimates that reparations of over $100 trillion are due to the ancestors of slaves. Compounds1817 tr. J. A. Dubois ii. vii. 141 To this invocation of the gods, he subjoins that of the seven famous penitents, the five virgins, the ancestor gods, [etc.]. 1829 J. Bentham iii. 204 In ancestor worship, how this our country has at all times vied with China, is no secret to any one. 1870 Apr. 122/2 The Taouist and Buddhist priests..discover, whilst engaged in their devotions, that some ancestor spirit belonging to a rich family of their acquaintance is in a state of purgatory. 1883 14 Apr. 249/3 A real domestic ancestor cult. 1928 C. Dawson iii. 47 The churingas or ‘ancestor stones’ of the modern Australian natives. 1957 V. W. Turner p. xxi The misfortunes of life..are attributed to the punitive action of ancestor spirits. 1989 14 Sept. (Good Times section) 12/1 Works of art are an essential link between everyday activities and the ancestor spirits of the Dreamtime. 2002 G. Betty 194 What most students of American Indians fail to understand is that ancestor worship..is at the root of all religious behavior. C2. 1955 B. Dean & V. Carell xvii. 193 Some of the drawings on our private rock gallery were of ancestor beings, for they had a fairly crude..type of halo about the human form. 1999 8 107 Kujika were composed by the ancestor beings during the creative period of the Dreaming as they travelled across the land. 2002 B. Hill iv. iv. 554 He..camped at the honey ant site..where the story recounts..how the honey ants emerged through the skin of the ancestor being, ‘like sweat drops from a man in the heat of a summer day’. 1901 2 169/1 Our ancestor language, so long despised and neglected as the vulgar speech of the mere Irish, may yet be the means of infusing into the minds of the apathetic official, the uncultivated shoneen,..and the careless tenant some portion of the immortal soul of the old race.] 1916 Apr. 230 It will not..be right to conclude that..this word is not descended from mārˈjārah... Geiger's contention is that the ancestor language possessed the penultimate stress. 1946 1 Nov. 47 The reconstruction of an ancestor language such as Proto-Germanic or Proto-Indo-European in instances where all record of the parent speech has been lost. 2010 K. D. Harrison v. 128 Languages are constantly changing, as populations disperse, and what once was a single ancestor language can split up into daughter languages. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). ancestorv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ancestor n. society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > ancestor > be ancestor of [verb (transitive)] 1883 F. E. Denton 123 The climate is the mother of the heart; Thy very thoughts and words, O Madeline, Are ancestored by mountains, clouds and winds. 1896 7 Nov. 11/7 Lord Burton was content to be ancestored by the true founder of his house,..his great-grandfather. 1921 10 Feb. 92/2 Their younger brother ancestored the well-known family of Howard-Vyse, of Stoke Place, Slough. 1940 M. M. Bryant & J. R. Aiken iv. 33 The Ursprache which ancestored our own English. 2010 8 May (Life & Arts section) 18/5 The country that ancestored our culture now requires all the help it can get. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). <  n.c1300 v.1883 |
