Definition of Lignage

1. ancestry [n -S] - See also: ancestry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lignage

lightwaves
lightweight
lightweighter
lightweightest
lightweights
lightwell
lightwells
lightwood
lightwoods
lightworker
lighty
lightyear
lightyears
lign-
lign-aloes
lignage (current term)
lignages
lignaloes
lignan
lignane
lignanes
lignans
ligne
lignel
lignels
ligneous
ligneous plant
ligneous struma
ligneous thyroiditis

Literary usage of Lignage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Vie de Seint Auban: A Poem in Norman-French by Matthew Paris, Alban (1876)
"4SI pur lignage ne serra ... lignage sunt traîtres enemi :—563 pens de tun ... under lignage. lire v. tr. to read. prp. sg. ..."

2. Ane Compendious and Breve Tractate Concerning Ye Office & Dewtie of Kyngis by William Lauder, Fitzedward Hall (1864)
"before age must have been with, reference to the French manner of pronouncing the original form, lignage. And now the epenthetic e has become a syllable by ..."

3. Postils on the Epistles and Gospels by Richard Taverner, Edward Cardwell (1841)
"But his spirituall lignage is without compari- The nobi- son. ... Now ye haue the lignage of Christ according to the fleshe and the ..."

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