genealogicadj.
/ˌdʒɛniːəˈlɒdʒɪk//ˌdʒiːniːəˈlɒdʒɪk/ = genealogical adj.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > lineage or descent > genealogy as study > [adjective]
genealogial1447
genealogical1587
genealogic1765
1765 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) III. i. 14 He [sc. Hondius] also engraved a genealogic chart of the houses of York and Lancaster.
1788 H. Walpole Reminiscences (1924) ii. 19 Genealogic purity of blood is the predominant folly of Germany.
1797 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 24 189 The genealogic, and perhaps the medallic, parts of the history display accuracy.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. ii. 94 'Tis mine to..strike the blow, Which shall..hew the highest genealogic trees Down to the earth.
1833 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Aug. 151/2 To get at those genealogic Documents, he has been obliged to invent some story.
1879 W. E. Hearn Aryan Househ. (new ed.) v. 139 The pure genealogic clan which bonâ fide springs, or believes that it springs, from some common ancestor.
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