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A suffix signifying action; also, quality or state; as, assistance, resistance, appearance, elegance. See -ancy.

One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.

Ancestral. Grote.

With regard to ancestors.

Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.

A female ancestor.

Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison.

Obeisance. [Obs.] Jonson.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude, etc. Aberrancy of curvature (Geom.), the deviation of a curve from a circular form.

ession. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with). The Christians had no longer abidance in the holy hill of Palestine. Fuller. A judicious abidance by rules. Helps.

An omen; a portending. [Obs.]

le to quantity only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

bation, satisfaction, or acquiescence; esp., favorable reception; approval; as, the acceptance of a gift, office, doctrine, etc. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altar. Isa. lx. 7.

Agreement; harmony; conformity. "In strict accordance with the law." Macaulay.

Custom; habitual use. [Obs.] Boyle.

Achievement. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.

ercourse short of that of friendship or intimacy; as, I know the man; but have no acquaintance with him. Contract no friendship, or even acquaintance, with a guileful man. Sir W. Jones.

A state of being acquainted; acquaintance. Southey.