مَحِْتدٌ

Origin; synonym أَصْلٌ; (IAar, S, L, K;) apparently in respect of race, or lineage, only, as several of the lexicologists have expressly asserted; (MF;) as also مَحْفِدٌ (S, L) and مَحْقِدٌ and مَحْكِدٌ: (IAar, L:) plural مَحَاتِدُ. (A.) You say, فُلَانٌ مِنْ مَحْتِدِ صِدْقٍ, (S,) or فِى مَحْتِدِ صِدْقٍ, (A,) [Such a one is of a good, or an excellent, origin.] And هُوَ كَرِيمُ المَحْتِدِ [He is generous in respect of origin]. (A, L.)

Also Nature; natural, or native, disposition, temper, or the like. (L, K.) You say, of a man who has done an act of kindness and reverted from it, رَجَعَ إِلَى مَحْتِدِهِ He returned to his natural disposition. (L.)