“descendancy”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

descendancy

释义

deˈscendancy, -ency arch.
[f. as prec. + -ancy. Also spelt -ency after med.L. dēscendentia.]
a. The condition or quality of being descended.
b. A stage in lineal descent, a generation; = descent 9.
c. = descendance.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 257 The unfortunate successes hapned in his proper descendencie.1630Ibid. 251 Placentia was not granted absolutely to the house of Farnesi but only to the fourth descendencie, after which it returnes againe to the King of Spaine.a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 86 From Father to Son, in a continued descendency.1661Morgan Sph. Gentry ii. i. 6 To distinguish the degree of decendency.1790W. Combe Devil on Two Sticks (1817) I. 78 Their descendancy from the common mother, Eve.1934Dylan Thomas Let. 9 May (1966) 124 If a poem, in the John Donne descendency, is fairly good, they print it; if very good in the Tennyson descendency, they refuse to.

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