auncetry

auncetry

1. (Late Middle English, Lancashire; Promptorium Parvulorum) alternative form of auncestrie
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Reues Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, lines 127-129:

     His purpos was for to bistowe hire hye
     Into som worthy blood of auncetry;

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