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ancestral

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an·ces·tral  (n-sstrl)
adj.
Of, relating to, or evolved from an ancestor or ancestors.

an·cestral·ly adv.

ancestral
Adjective
of or inherited from ancestors
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.ancestralancestral - inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"
law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"
heritable, inheritable - capable of being inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title"
2.ancestral - of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

ancestral
adjective inherited, hereditary, patriarchal, antecedent, forefatherly, genealogical, lineal, ancestorial
Translations

ancestral [ænˈsɛstrəl] adjancestral
ancestral [ænˈsɛstrəl] adjancestral(e)
ancestral [ænˈsɛstrəl] ancestor adjangestammt;
ancestral home → Stammsitz m
ancestral [ænˈsɛstrəl] adjavito/a

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Have not I resolved within myself that the whole earth contains no fitter ornament for the great hall of my ancestral castle?
"Milk and honey" would have been an appropriate inscription for the delicious little library which parents who, I surmised, doted on Nicolete in vain, had allowed her to build in a wild woodland corner of her ancestral park, half a mile away from the great house, where, for all its corridors and galleries, she could never feel, at all events, spiritually alone.
Natasha and Nicholas often noticed their parents conferring together anxiously and privately and heard suggestions of selling the fine ancestral Rostov house and estate near Moscow.
 
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