Atavus
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
The great-grandfather’s or great-grandmother’s granifather; a fourth grandfather. The «ascending line of lineal ancestry runs thus: Pater, Avus, Proavus, Abavus, Atavus, Uritavus. Theseventh generation in the ascending scale will he 7'ritavipater, and the next above it Proavi-atavus.