Ancestral

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ancestral \An*ces"tral\ (?; 277), a.
     Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor
     or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees."
     --Hemans.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  ancestral
       adj 1: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal
              rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore";
              "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate";
              "transmissible tradition" [syn: {hereditary}, {patrimonial},
               {transmissible}]
       2: of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  32 Moby Thesaurus words for "ancestral":
     aboriginal, ancestorial, antepatriarchal, atavistic, autochthonous,
     fatherlike, fatherly, grandfatherly, grandmotherly, grandparental,
     humanoid, maternal, mother, motherlike, motherly, parent, parental,
     paternal, patriarchal, preadamite, preglacial, prehistoric,
     prehuman, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, primoprimitive,
     primordial, pristine, protohistoric, protohuman
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  ANCESTRAL. What relates to or has, been done by one's ancestors; as homage
  ancestral, and the like.