ancestral

[an·ces·tral]

Ancestral things have been around so long that they once belonged to your ancestors, the family members who lived before your grandparents were born.

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Styptic. [Obs.]

Adjective S.
inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition"

Adjective
of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor


a.
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.


Ancestral

An`a*stal"tic , a. & n. [Gr. 54 fitted for checking, fr. + to send.] (Med.) Styptic. [Obs.]> An*ces"tral (?; 277), a. Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate. "Ancestral trees." Hemans.

Styptic. [Obs.]

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Usage Examples

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

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.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

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