Definition of "grandsire" []

• Archaic A grandfather. (noun)
• Archaic A male ancestor; a forefather. (noun)
• Archaic An old man. (noun)

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• "Your grandsire was a chauffeur, a servant, and without education."
• "A quick brain and a better education elsewhere showed the boy very soon that his grandsire was a dullard, and he began accordingly to command him and to look down upon him; for his previous education, humble and contracted as it had been, had made a much better gentleman of Georgy than any plans of his grandfather could make him."
• "I remember her telling me that the magic ran in her family, but deep; her grandsire was a Master, but not her father."