PEDIGREE

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A line of ancestors; descent; lineage; genealogy; a register or record of a line of ancestors. Alterations of surnames . . . have obscured the truth of our pedigrees. Camden. His vanity labored to contrive us a pedigree. Milton. I am no herald to inquire of men's pedigrees. Sir P. Sidney. The Jews preserved the pedigrees of their tribes. Atterbury.

2.
n.

A record of the lineage or strain of an animal, as of a horse.