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ancester (c.1245)

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ancester (c.1245)

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[gdw]

FEW: antecessor 24,642b Gdf: ∅ GdfC: ancestre 8,118b TL: ∅ DEAF: ancessor (ancestor) / ancessor (ancestre) DMF: ancêtre TLF: ancêtre OED: ancestor n. MED: auncestre n. DMLBS: ∅

ancestre; auncester, auncestor, auncestour, auncestre; hauncestre, auncestrer 75,
pl. auncostres (l. auncestres) ii 144

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1 kinship ancestor, forebear:

( MS: c.1300 ) del fust en qui nostre ancestre[s] pendiren[t] Jhesum 26r

( 1360-79; MS: s.xiv^ex ) le servant comme le mestre [...], tous avoions un ancestre 17345

♦ coll.kinship ancestry, forebears:

( 1360-79; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Le grief dolour q'ont nostre ancestre Al houre de l'enfantement, Ma doulce dame, ne te prent 28073

2 kinship parent:

( 1360-79; MS: s.xiv^ex ) Om voit le fils a ce pledour, Ce q'en trente auns par grant labour Jadis pourchaça son ancestre, Il vent en un moment du jour 24585

♦law kinshipascendant, one from whom estate derives:

( 1258-59 ) si le heir seit de age quant sun ancestre mort 474

( c.1292; MS: c.1300 ) covendra acune foiz counter par mi les degrez voides, sicum en cas ou le fiz einzné, qi ad engendrure, se lest morir avaunt soen auncestre ii 322

3 predecessor:

( c.1245; MS: c.1255 ) E vout ke cist (=new Pope) […] face eu registre mettre Tuz les ottreiz sun ancestre 2289

comun ancester

1lawcommon ancestor of two or more heirs:

( 1304 ) W., le comune auncestre, de qy estat Sare porte ceo bref, fut tresael a J. soun (=Sare’s) parcener 32-33 Ed I 215

( 1338 ) I. dit qe lour comune auncestre morust seisi, aprés qi mort eles entrerent en ceste terre […] et purpartie se fist 11-12 Ed III 601

ancesserie ancessur ancestrel ancestrie antecessour

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