1. ancestor - Noun
2. ancestor - Verb
One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father.
An earlier type; a progenitor; as, this fossil animal is regarded as the ancestor of the horse.
One from whom an estate has descended; -- the correlative of heir.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe ancestor of every action is a thought. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Yes, evolution by descent from a common ancestor is clearly true. If there was any lingering doubt about the evidence from the fossil record, the study of DNA provides the strongest possible proof of our relatedness to all other living things. Francis Collins
Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead. David Henry Hwang
No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings. Robin Lane Fox
To be an ancestral believer is to be a good ancestor. African Proverb
Death is unable to speak of the ancestor. Burkina Faso Proverb