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Pedigree   /pˈɛdəgri/   Listen
Pedigree

noun
1.
The descendants of one individual.  Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, stemma, stock.
2.
Line of descent of a purebred animal.
3.
Ancestry of a purebred animal.  Synonym: bloodline.
adjective
1.
Having a list of ancestors as proof of being a purebred animal.  Synonyms: pedigreed, pureblood, pureblooded, thoroughbred.






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"Pedigree" Quotes from Famous Books



... cried Harrington, "as the first step towards something better,—his Creator having beneficently created him something infinitely worse! Surely, you must be returning to a savage yourself, even to hint at such a pedigree. But I have done: till those cases of which certain philosophers have said so much have been authenticated; till you can produce an instance of a new-born babe, exposed on a mountain-side, in all the helplessness of his natal hour, and self-preserved,—nay, ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers

... pretty embarrassment. "Jane say yo' maw like her. She say yo' maw like her 'caze she always done tole yo' maw ev'thing what happm when yo' maw not at home. Seh? Oh, no, seh," the speaker's bashfulness increased, "'tis on'y Jane say dat; same time she call my notice to de absence o' Pufesso' Pedigree—yass, seh." ...
— John March, Southerner • George W. Cable

... dogs, middle-sized dogs, and cats of all sizes, colors and breeds. The snow-white Angora was there as well as the mangy alley cat. But all were on an equal at these meetings and there was no quarreling between aristocrat and the animal with no pedigree. All was harmony there. Could only the human race be as harmonious as these animals, the Brotherhood ...
— Billy Whiskers' Adventures • Frances Trego Montgomery

... bought it, and I can drink it, too. And as for your Wall Street whippersnappers that haven't pedigree enough to get a taste for wine, and drink champagne, and don't know an honest man when ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... beautiful Sunday morning, and we found Gogo hard at work at a small table by an open window. The floor was covered with old deeds and parchments and family papers; and le beau Pasquier, at another table, was deep in his own pedigree, making notes on the margin—an occupation in which he delighted—and unconsciously humming as he did so. The sunny room was filled with the penetrating soft sound of his voice, as a conservatory is filled with the scent ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al


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