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pedigree

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pedigree  \Ped"i*gree\,  n.  [Of  unknown  origin;  possibly  fr  F. 
  par  degr['e]s  by  degrees,  --  for  a  pedigree  is  properly  a 
  genealogical  table  which  records  the  relationship  of  families 
  by  degrees;  or  perh.,  fr  F.  pied  de  grue  crane's  foot,  from 
  the  shape  of  the  heraldic  genealogical  trees.] 
  1.  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.  (Stock  Breeding)  A  record  of  the  lineage  or  strain  of  an 
  animal,  as  of  a  horse. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pedigree 
  adj  :  having  a  list  of  ancestors  as  proof  of  being  a  purebred 
  animal  [syn:  {pedigree(a)},  {pedigreed},  {pureblood},  {pureblooded}, 
  {thoroughbred}] 
  n  1:  the  descendants  of  one  individual;  "his  entire  lineage  has 
  been  warriors"  [syn:  {lineage},  {line},  {line  of  descent}, 
  {descent},  {bloodline},  {blood  line},  {blood},  {ancestry}, 
  {origin},  {parentage},  {stock}] 
  2:  line  of  descent  of  a  pure-bred  animal 
  3:  ancestry  of  a  purebred  animal  [syn:  {bloodline}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  PEDIGREE,  n.  The  known  part  of  the  route  from  an  arboreal  ancestor 
  with  a  swim  bladder  to  an  urban  descendant  with  a  cigarette.




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