1. ancestral - Adjective
2. ancestral - Adjective Satellite
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe stately Homes of England,How beautiful they stand!Amidst their tall ancestral trees,O'er all the pleasant land. Felicia Hemans
Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. Keith Henson
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait. Anatole Broyard
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. E. O. Wilson
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. George Eliot
To be an ancestral believer is to be a good ancestor. African Proverb