† ˌfore-ˈgrandsire Sc. Obs.
Forms: see fore- prefix and grandsire.
[f. fore- prefix + grandsire.]
a. A grandfather; = L. avus. b. A great-grandfather; = L. proavus. c. A great-great-grandfather. d. An ancestor.
| a. 1513 Douglas æneis xii. vi. 95 The name he bair of his fore grandschir wycht. |
| b. 1474 Acta Audit. (1839) 34/2 Þai fand þe said Robertis forgrantsire deit last vest & sesit of þe said landes. 1500–20 in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 315 My foir grandschir, hecht Fyn Mackcowll. |
| c. 1541 Books Counc. & Sess. B 18. 44 (Jam.) Be his fader, gudschir, grandshir, and forgrandshir, lardis of Fingiltoun. 1633 Acts Chas. I (1814) V. 64/2 To the forsaids persones..thair fathers guidschirs grandschirs foirgrandschirs [etc.]. |
| d. 1549 Compl. Scot. (1873) 3 Your foir grandscheir gode⁓froid of billon kyng of iherusalem..deffendit his pepil. |
| fig. 1581 N. Burne Disp. Relig. xviii. 62/2 Frere Martine Lauter your foirgrandschir passed mair cannelie to vorke. |