ancestral

adjective

1. 1

   Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors.

   an ancestral estate

   one’s ancestral home

   It seems that people with an ancestral history of enduring famines develop a tendency to store more body fat, becoming overfat even when they aren’t overweight.

noun

1. 1

   An ancestor or forbear.

   Some big cheese bein' grought back to his native island to get planted with his ancestrals.

   I thought of the strange two-dimensional world these forebearing ancestrals had to live in.

2. 2

   A descendant of one's ancestors.

   He considered that the local custom permitted a sister's son to inherit in default of near male ancestrals.

   But ancestrals cannot be willed away .

   Having no regards for their ancestrals and parents.

3. 3

   An elderly relative.

   Cadwy and some of the ancestrals carried Gilbert back to the platform to have his wounds healed by Guinevere.

4. 4

   A genetic precursor.

   The intermediate nature of the gene frequencies of the populations in the two groupings to those of the putative ancestrals, Table 4, indicates the Mestizo gentic constitution of the MMA populations and supports previous information for this area (Garza-Chapa 1983b)

   All the ancestrals with unknown origin or pedigree were included within this group.

   Some of the tequila ancestrals and añejos have a subdominant odor to them — the smoky, vanilla-like syringaldehyde that is also in coastal raicillas and bacanoras .

5. 5

   A forerunner; One who was involved in an earlier version of something.

   It is hard, remember, to match the craft and proficiency of the ancestrals' bare-bones protocols of turning grapes into raisins, of mastering heat, dirt, and moisture to produce a natural and inexpensive candy.

   Ancestrals were planters and irrigators, but more cosmopolitan.

   I did what any eighties East Coast nerdy writer would do: I called on the ancestrals and they guided me. I asked Dorothy Lazard, Judy Juanita, and Keenan Norris for stories, and they asnwered that call without hesitation, as did new writers like Mahmud Rahman and Keri Miki-Lani Schroeder.

6. 6

   An earlier version of something.

   The old ancestrals of the Murray were disrupted and caused to flow along the Gulpa Creek at the toe of the fault escarpment to Deniliquin (Pels 1966). Later the younger ancestrals followed the old for a short distance beyond Tocumwal, left them and formed the Bullatale Creek flood plain.

   The Internet was and is, an invention of academics, researchers, including the ones of the military phase. It is still the first anarchy in power (a limited but not negligible disuised power) with well known ancestrals in other fields and ideologies, like the Commune or, less in the anarchic field and more in the one of the economic cooperation in network, the Hanseatic League.

7. 7

   The spirit of one's ancestor.

   Is not that article of the treaty relating to Christianity which, in condemning the worship of ancestrals, places itself in direct opposition to the fundamental law of the empire, a most flagrant interference in the affairs of the Chinese?

   Only three of the 23 societies with such kinship groups lack active ancestrals. Half of the 24 societies without such kinship gropus posses active ancestral spirits.

   The Guru then asked them that if their water could reach the sun or their ancestrals as they used to believe, why could his water not reach Kartarpur, which was far nearer than the sun.

8. 8

   One who follows, honors, or is attracted to an ancestral tradition.

   To future ancestrals living in old homesteads or in copies of them, Figures 2 and 3 indicate what and how to show.

   The DC [District Commissioner] reasoned that since it was only the ancestrals who had a problem with the incident, they should supply the bulls necessary to purify the forest. The ancestrals refused, since they did not want to pay for an offence of the Christian group.

9. 9

   A relationship in which something is a precursor.

   Like all ordinary ancestrals, remote successor is logically reflexive.

   One can take advantage of the ancestrals of basic relations such as RemoteSuccessor, to define Quace structure as follows internal to Proposal A:

   I thus naturally extend the notation introduced for the ancestrals of structural relations between arcs to the nonstructural relations Sponsor and Erase, and to relations defined in terms of them like Successor.

Forms

plural

ancestrals