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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 [ænˈsɛstrəl]
adj
of, inherited from, or derived from ancestors his ancestral home
n
(Philosophy / Logic) Logic a relation that holds between x and y if there is a chain of instances of a given relation leading from x to y. Thus the ancestral of parent of is ancestor of, since x is the ancestor of y if and only if x is a parent of…a parent of…a parent of y
ancestrally  adv
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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 the family's ancestral home
Translations
ancestral [ænˈsestrəl]
A. ADJancestral
B. CPD ancestral home Ncasa f solariega
ancestral [ænˈsɛstrəl] adj [home, land, spirit, roots] → ancestral(e)
ancestral
adjseiner/ihrer Vorfahren; ancestral homeStammsitz m
ancestral [ænˈsɛstrl] adj (of family) → avito/a; (of former times) → ancestrale, atavico/a
ancestral home → casa avita


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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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