ANCIENTRY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West.

2.
n.

Old age; also, old people. [R.] Wronging the ancientry. Shak.

3.
n.

Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.


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