ancestral
Speech parts
1. ancestral - Adjective
2. ancestral - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
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The stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land.
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.
To be an ancestral believer is to be a good ancestor.